You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.

It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for 'Sadak'. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.

The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands one for helping yourself the other for helping others.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

I feel like girls should dress down a little bit on the holidays, even though the instinct is to get really dressed up.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do by finding out what we will not do.

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.