Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.
If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments
To avoid being disappointed, avoid placing your expectations on others. Love lets them be who they are and it allows them to react the way they want to react.
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.
If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The British accent does open doors.
I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.
