Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.
He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.
It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.
I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!
Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
I was at Target the day after my kinda debut on 'True Blood,' and I got recognized right away. I was very surprised. It caught me off-guard.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.
