I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equatio...
Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.
I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
'Twilight' has been a great opportunity, and it's been great fun. Hey, if I'm 50, and someone still wants an autograph for 'Twilight,' OK, cool.
Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
