There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.
If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.
Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.
When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
Part of what I like about living in Chicago is it's not easy. The breath of the city, the everyday challenge of it, is good. It forces you to grow and push yourself.
You can't test courage cautiously.
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
Design can change how you look at yourself.
I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.
You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There's no chance it won't happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can't quite tap into what you need.
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.
Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.
