The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
You can't put off being young until you retire.
There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next Lisa Leslie.
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
Hopefully, through all aspects of life, you learn from things you've got right, things you've got wrong, but I'm not one for looking back. I'm looking ahead; you've got to.
My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.
I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.
If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
You have good days and bad days.
But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.
When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.
You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.
