When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. what you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

We live in an unsafe world.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

If people enjoy your movies, that's the most important thing.

Whats gone and whats past help Should be past grief.

I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.

Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.

Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with that. You have got to outdo what you did before. So, if the last one took two years, we would need at least that to do what we are talking about or, at least, thinking about.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there."

Life like classical music is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

With wealth comes responsibility.

On a red carpet, you really want to feel your best, so to work with a designer who will shape a dress to your figure and take into consideration your opinions is really a blessing.

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.