A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.
Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there.
When I met my wife, I was 24. Obviously, she wasn't my wife. She was just a girl. I made her my wife later on.
But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.
Time is made of moments. The present is today. New day and new grace. Today is my precious time on earth.
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
