I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.
You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.
If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.
In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.
Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her. ' And he disconnected. I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His apartment got blown up, and I need to find him. ' And I should do this why?' Because you like me. ' There was a full beat of silence. 'I do,' Ranger said. 'I like you a lot. Sometimes I'm not sure why. Give me a couple minutes.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
When I'm onstage and the singer sings, "I think about childhood friends and the dreams we had" and "on board I'm the captain, so climb aboard and we'll search for tomorrow forever more. "My head is down because I'm trying to keep the beat. I'll turn and look at the audience and my eyes will scan the entire space. This is a transcendent moment. I can't explain it. It has a lot of meaning to me.