I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
L.A. can be intense, but the second you get over the hill into Calabasas, your stress level immediately drops because it's so peaceful and safe. Sometimes I really miss it.
Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus?
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their intellectual level.
When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
