A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'
As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.'
Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.
Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.
In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.
Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.
I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.
When the chips are down, life forces you to take inventory and reevaluate the people in your life.
It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.
I'm not maximized yet.
What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
