To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.
Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.
Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.
Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.
At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?
If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.
We play a lot of tennis, and we work out at the gym three or four times a week. As you get older, you feel those aches and pains, so Advil's become a friend in the house.
I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.
The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?
When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right.
You can't go east and west at the same time.
It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
