The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.
I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.
It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!
You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.
If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.
I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.
It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.
When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
I have a mug that actually verifies that I'm the world's best dad. That's a mug. That's not me talking. You can't just buy those.
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!
Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.
When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'
Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level.
Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.
People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
