I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.
I might have to go on breakfast TV, which would mean getting up early.
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?
Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's something solid in that in terms of the way I experience it.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
