I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.
How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?
I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.
I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!
If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.
You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.
I think when you go to Hawaii, you'll notice the ambience, and you'll notice everyone is friendly because we all kind of think for each other.
For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
I need savory sauces, stews and pastas. I can't live without pastas. My butt, you can tell I like to eat.
