If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
What you measure and reward is what you're going to get.
No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.
If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.
I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.
You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.
If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them.
I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
You don't want to play the same role twice.
I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.
I think you should always have a big team behind you if you are a big brand because it makes you think big.
When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.
I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.
In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
