I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.
The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
You cannot change things by worrying over them.But you will find miracles happen when you hand over your problems to God and then forget about.....
Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.
No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.
I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.
