In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
There's only a couple stats that matter. No one cares how many blocked shots a guy has, how many hits.
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.
I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins...you should be shot in the head.
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.
As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'
I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.
