Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.
This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.
The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.
I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.
I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.
I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.
If you're a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they're here, because you never know what will happen.
The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.
There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process, and hence, you have gas.
I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.
I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
The way people see you is the way you really are.
If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.
