With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.
Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.
Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect your decisions whether you like it or not because the effects can occur on the unconscious level.
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother?
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.
I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.
You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.
My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.
You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie.
There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
