It don't mean a thing If it ain't got that swing.

It don't mean a thing If it ain't got that swing.

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours.

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

You are the only one who can dream your dreams.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves but it resides deeply in our hearts.

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

Don't save bold lashes and red lips for nighttime - do it in the day!

I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.

I love filming in Britain.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

When youre ready to stop stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make look for the nearest exit.

I went to Q-school knowing that I could play well and get through.