When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.
I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It's how I grew up.
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.
I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
From the Book of Mormon, we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?
I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?
