You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.
I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.
The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.
What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
You can't take away that Liz Lemon is my boo; you can't take that away.
When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
William Shatner is living proof that if you are talented and nice, you can work in this industry forever.
You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
