You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.
From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.
Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.
I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.
It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.
I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.
I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.
Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.
