When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
If you asked a Singaporean, on the one hand they'll say, 'Let us do our own things.' On the other hand, when an issue comes out, they'll ask, 'What is the government doing about it?'
Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.
I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.
I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history.
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all.
You don't get to be in the squad unless you're six feet tall, a supermodel, perfect, famous, and hot. That's like hand selecting perfection, putting it into a group of girls, and saying, 'Look how amazing we are.'
