When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand that, and it's going to require all of us - those who are the most fortunate among us - but it's really going to require every American to contribute to a solution.
I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.
The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.
You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you.
A lot of guys really I get the feeling don't care whether you like their show or not, you know. I want people to enjoy what I do, and understand what I'm doing is for their enjoyment, it's all I can ask for.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
A lot of my friends say, 'Did you even put on makeup?' and that's exactly what I want.
It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.
There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.
Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.
When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.
Don't you think it would be great to do a bunch of Nicorette commercials? Just, like, me in the desert, kind of Marlboro Man-style, driving a fast car, pulling over, looking at the sunset. Dissolving in ecstasy. Can't you see it? Me blowing huge Nicorette bubbles.
Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
