As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past.
The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.
I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.
Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.
You don't lead people by what you say to them; you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders.
I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
