I never wanted to be an actor. It was something I found a passion for; it wasn't there immediately.
I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving...
Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
I'm motivated by fear of failure. It's a personal mission to say to all those people from years ago, 'Look, I'm seriously not a failure.'
There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.
We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We...
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
My first race was in October 2001 in Kapsabet, Kenya. It was a 10km road race. I was excited and I was happy to know I am good in running.
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat...
'Masaan' was a life-changing experience.
I'm a lovely person, considerate and loving.
At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.
When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.
There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.
We had a good education, but we didn't walk away feeling better than anybody else.
I never said Kristen ruined my wedding. At the time, when a million other things had fallen apart that day, I felt like she was one of them, and I was owed an apology. Simple as that. I now see that...
I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've...
I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy...
Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated...
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
I think you have different soulmates throughout your life.
I ended up living in fear for most of my childhood.
I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.
If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.
It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.
The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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...