I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.
Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.
Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.
I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.
