An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'
