If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'
Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?'
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
