Above all, ignore the audience.

Above all, ignore the audience.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

The simplest action is worth more than the profoundest thought.

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.

I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

Please all, and you will please none.

Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.