I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
As a driver, you always want to be in the car getting as much experience as possible; especially when there's something new like different tyres.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.
I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.
