We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.
We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.
When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.
When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.
We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.
I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.
The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.