You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.
I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.
There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing.
If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.
It's always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they'll hold together better.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.
My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.
I didn't really watch 'Dallas,' so I wasn't as wowed by the idea of Patrick Duffy as Swedes were 'cause he's, like, the most famous guy in all of Sweden.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
