When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.
I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.
People will try to break you, hate you, ignore you But if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.
