When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
I am loath to suggest 'Visitor Q' to anyone, because you've got to have a warped brain to even understand or appreciate it a little bit. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I have been blessed with a warped brain, and I really dug it.
A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.
It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?
It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
DJ Qualls and I have been best friends for I don't even know how long - since I was a kid, 14, 15, many, many years.
Acting was always my passion, even before music, so I knew I was always heading down that path.
I have a film out called 'Nobel.' Film is something I would love to explore more, even though I love being on the stage.
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.
I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.
I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
