I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.
Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
