I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I've always been a fan of Derek Jeter. Guys that consistently, throughout a long-term career, that not only have success but are very aware of their situation - I really dig that.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.

'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine and such an enchanting park and lake infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

My acting gives me my self-worth.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

I know my heart will never be the same but Im telling myself Ill be okay

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.

Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.