Perfektion ist der Feind der Kreativität. Sie hält einen auf und nimmt die Freude am künstlerischen Prozess. Stattdessen sollte man sich darum bemühen, "so gut wie möglich" zu arbeiten.

Auch wenn es nicht so scheint: Jeder ist kreativ. Denn die Existenz allein bringt die Neugier mit sich und diese ist der Ausgangspunkt jeder Idee.

Wenn man sich vorstellt, eine Idee käme nicht aus dem eigenen Inneren, sondern von außen auf einen zugeflogen, fühlt man sich geradezu dazu auserwählt, sie umzusetzen.

Man sollte sich und seiner Kreativität stets Aufgaben stellen. So wird sie "trainiert" und gestärkt.

Es hilft nicht, sich über Schwierigkeiten kreativer Berufe zu beschweren, man hat sich schließlich freiwillig darauf eingelassen. Stattdessen sollte man seine Inspiration pflegen und sie nicht mit seinem Gejammer verscheuchen.

"Frustration unterbricht den Prozess nicht. Sie ist der Prozess"

Ohne Hoch- und Tiefphasen, ohne Schweiß und Tränen und ohne Freude oder Verzweiflung kann keine Kunst entstehen.

Angst ist eine primitive Emotion, die wir nicht ausschalten können, daher sollten wir uns nicht von ihr leiten lassen. Man kann sie nur akzeptieren und (mit ihr) weiterarbeiten.

Originalität ist eine Utopie. Man kann nichts erschaffen, was man nicht mindestens in Teilen einmal wahrgenommen hat. Was zählt ist Authentizität und Individualität.

Der künstlerische Berufsweg sollte niemals an finanziellen Problemen scheitern. Keine Institution sollte einen dazu führen, Unsummen an Krediten aufzunehmen, um eine künstlerische Ausbildung abschließen zu können.

Wer verbissen versucht, Kreativität und Karriere zu vereinen, wird in den meisten Fällen scheitern. Die Kunst sollte in erster Linie Genuss und ein Mittel zur Verarbeitung von Emotionen sein.

Befindet man sich an einem Punkt, an dem es unmöglich scheint, der Leidenschaft zu folgen, sollte man sich stattdessen auf die Neugier einlassen. Die Leidenschaft verlangt Kraft, die nicht immer zur Verfügung steht. Neugier hingegen zeigt einem neue Wege.

Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Ladies be seated, a laugh doesn't cost you a dime.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.

I've lived in Los Angeles for over 70 years.

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.

For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'

Memories are what warm you up inside. But they're also what tear you apart.

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when Absolutely not.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.