And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again.
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
So I started home schooling. I was a little freaked out about that, because I' m such a social person, involved in everything. It was awesome. I loved it and I loved being home.
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
I always felt uncomfortable with real estate because buildings don't move, and neighborhoods change.
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.
After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'
Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach.
