Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.
At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way.
First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
Comedy is the toughest. If it goes little bit here and there, and your partner doesn't cover up for you, then everything can go wrong.
I think it's phenomenal and expected that Paralympians will take on able bodied people more and more. In dressage, it happens all the time. But there are very few adaptions, and they are never allowed to give you an advantage.
You are attached to what you attack.
We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.
Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.
If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.
You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.
Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.
As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.'
You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Without love in you life, you have nothing.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.
This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
