It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.
Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.
I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.
So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.
But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.
If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
