All you can try to do is be better than you were yesterday, everyday.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
[Mattie comes to get Rooster and finds him talking with LaBoeuf] Mattie Ross: This man wants to take Chaney back to Texas. That's not what I want. Rooster Cogburn: He wants him caught and punished - so do you. Mattie Ross: I want Tom Chaney to hang f...
You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.
When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.
We mustn't change history,' Susan pouted. Ian had been so awed by her work on the portal, he'd almost forgotten she was just in her teens. 'But Susan,' said the Doctor in his softest voice, 'we change history every time we step out of the door of the...
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
