One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.
You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.
I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.
You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!
You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
I think my issues with the Internet surround people who become 'overnight celebrities.' It's like, really? You put something on YouTube, and they Auto-Tuned it, and now you're a star, and you have a TV show, and you have a record deal.
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.
The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.
I think it's just amazing to be in a group of women, in a group of people that you can spend enough time with them to really get to know people and be inspired by them and learn something new about them every day.
You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.
What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and we'll help you.' I think that's the most beautiful prize I've ever heard of.
Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.
When you're young, you don't really think about what's going on. At least, in my case, I was always so hooked on being so innovative and didn't worry about what happened yesterday. I just wanted to focus on today and make it better. I was like that every day. I just made sure that every night I was at my best, at the best level I could be.
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.
I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.
