There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
I dare you to put me in a back alley with Randy Orton or someone like that. I guarantee I'm not afraid of someone taller.
It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.
When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.
Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.
You can never be too rich or too thin.
I loved working on 'Thomas & Friends.' That's an iconic show, and that thing is, like, a billion-dollar property. But content-wise, yep, if you're not into steam trains and preschool storytelling, it can get a little wearing after years of it.
There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing.
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.
I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.
Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.
Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
