But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
You love who you love. I happen to just love a lot of women.
A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow.
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?
It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.
Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.
She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.
I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.
