Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.
15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.
You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.
There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.
You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.
In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.
I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.
Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.
Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.
The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
