Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.
You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that.
You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
I wasn't ready to be a dog's mother! Trust me, I'm completely unfit and irresponsible. I'm a comic that travels 48 weeks a year, but I make it work, so you can, too.
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.
If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
If they play dirty, then you play dirty.
With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
You know, the '80s, as crazy as the '80s were, that was a surprisingly kind and generous environment that I found myself in as a teenager.
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
I learned a lot about a traumatic situation and what it does to you. It really brings you closer to your family and your loved ones.
I only know one thing. I have been bred through the Heat organization to do it one way. And every day, you prepare.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
