You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.
I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
I'm not sitting around saying, 'Man, I'd really love to direct a western.' That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses.
You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.
I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!
