Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.
It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.
From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Feeling complete in life begins when you start to understand that you are the only one who can love you the most.
When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction... you need Divine Revelation
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
Be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
Always be careful what you say. You can say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.
