The way Germans work is that they are slow to warm up but when they do they are your friend for life and very loyal.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.
From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
I love a good Steve Martin, Martin Short scene where they're being super physical - I don't mean to compare myself - but I relate to their type of comedy because they do crazy stuff but come at it in an honest way.
I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I've been on national TV since 1994, and I can communicate in a compelling and decisive way.
Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
The business always gets in the way of basketball.
I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.
When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
