I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

An important skill for all SpaceXers is the ability to accept critical feedback. This is key to anyone's growth and becoming better at what they do.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

Earlier in my career, I was much more super-sharey. There were moments when I wanted to process things that were happening to me more privately, and I didn't have the space to do it, because once you let people in, they're in, and you don't get to say, 'Oh, I want this for myself.'

I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure I could leave them out. I know how it feels.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

It can't be all serious at all times.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

If you always try to be cautious and careful, you will never impress anyone.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

Gnosticism has always been difficult to define largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Positive expectations are important for your baseball success because you tend to get what you expect.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.