If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner...
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work....
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.
I wasn't really a work - conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation....
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no doubt. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...
People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.
The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.
I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much...
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...