Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I hate a man who always says "yes" to me. When I say "no" I like a man who also says "no."

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the headmaster Mr. Broakes. He must have spotted something unusual in me, for he spent lots of time encouraging my interest in mathematics.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from nature.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.

Don't let idiots ruin your day.

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.

It would be pretty special if I could win two Olympic gold medals, one at the Summer Games and one from the Winters, so I'm going to give it a real go.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.

I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

I'm not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I'd confront him as well.

As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly improving striking, grappling, wrestling - there's always different aspects to improve.