I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line. " You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.
I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.
I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.
Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made.
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it. ' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him. . . he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.
The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.
Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows.
But you were a goody-goody, you said. ' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.
They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.
After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.
I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me. . . This is my new starting line.