Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
Years are not important, my dear.
You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
You're never going to learn everything.
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
You never toot your own horn.
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.
An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.
I am very pro law enforcement.
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.
I find these shows very touching sometimes.
People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
These are icons to be treasured.
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
