No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.
I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.
The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.
Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.
If you're open and honest, you find that people genuinely want to help you out. Taking advice from others can enhance your relationship, especially if you can laugh about things.
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.
There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.
More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some of the most sophisticated writing I've ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen - and it's a TV show.
Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.
As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.
I actually have the Arcade PC at home, and it has 5,500 games on it. Everything from the old school, Galaga, Tron, Missile Command, anything you can think of, they're all on there. I love the old school games.
Change before you have to.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.
When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.
