I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.
I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.
And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'
When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.
You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?
When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.
The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Things end in this business. Shows get canceled, or you walk away from them - but most likely, things get canceled.
If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
If you make a defamatory allegation that the Prime Minister is guilty of criminal misappropriation of pension funds of Singaporeans, that's a very serious matter.
I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
