Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.
The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.
To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.
I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.
I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.
There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.
