I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.
Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.
I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.
I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
What the fuck does he think he's doing anyway? And when has running around in a figure eight ever helped anyone?
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.
