Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.
I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.
The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.
The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.
As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.
Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.
I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.
