I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.
Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.
I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
