I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

I did actually have a deal with Columbia, but it became increasingly clear to me after signing with them that they didn't know what to do with me and I didn't know what to do for them, so we agreed to go our separate ways.

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

We take pride in what we do.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

When I come home, I am literally the most popular person with my friends' parents for doing 'The Archers.'

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when youre down.

We're at the beginning of the digitization and automation of biotech.

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.

I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

Keep your heels, head and standards high.

The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co operation with something else.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.