I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life, and you can't plan for trouble.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.
All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.
I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.
You're either ghetto or you're not.
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you - except for when it came to hide and seek: that's the only advantage I ever had!
The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.
I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?
To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.
I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.
At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.
You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.
Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.
Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
I had a dad you know.
