The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.
I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.
Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
Girls love it when you have some weird nerdy thing in your room. It makes you look less threatening, even though I'm, like, very threatening. I'm the most threatening guy ever.
I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?
Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.
Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.
I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.
One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.
What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.
