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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.
As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.
There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.
Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.
I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.
I've got to keep my head out of trouble, because if it goes on, it would be 'Harry Potter boy this, Harry Potter boy that.'
PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO
Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you?
I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.
This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.
I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.
The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.
Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.
There was a period in high school when, for some reason, I decided that suburbanites were my enemies or my rivals in a way.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.
All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
For 'The Trip To Bountiful,' I was worried about being too heavy, because I supposedly had just gotten out of the hospital.
I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
I didn't want to teach. I wanted to act. It was quite a long and difficult road to get there but very thrilling when I did.
There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
It was tough to quit football. But after I was injured, I didn't want people paying money to see only half a John Matuszak.
I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.
When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.