Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
Television, cable, features are always out there.
I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.
I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play