Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.
I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.
I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.
'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.
I've always thought really good artists in general are overqualified. You're paid to stand there and do a line, but the guy has probably gone to drama school... but they have developed it to be just, like, one specific line.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.
My fridge is usually pretty empty. If I can get it together to order FreshDirect, I will have some fruit and yogurt in the fridge. But there isn't a ton of stuff you would cook with.
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.
