You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit and filled with super inexpensive pottery. You see them in a new way; they become museum pieces.
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
I've found that there's a lot to invigorate in any country or destination - it's all about how you look at it. I've never really had any difficulties anywhere I've been. As an athlete, I used to enjoy being on the road and meeting people.
The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.
Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level.
Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.
If you have a bad experience on the air, you don't think you've done your job, or you have an embarrassing moment. I guarantee you'll work harder the next time not to let it happen again.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?
If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on economy.
No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
I was such a tomboy - goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy - and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn't!
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.
Einstein had looked at the numbers and dimensions that went into his equations for gravitational waves and said, essentially, 'This is so tiny that it will never have any influence on anything, and nobody can measure it.' And when you think about the times and the technology in 1916, he was probably right.
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
