I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.
Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.
You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.
I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
