I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible.
On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.
I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.
God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
