How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I’m into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
The weirdest thing about me is that I like to walk around naked.
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
When I first got to the White House, I was super anxious all the time about not knowing the answer to every question. And Obama was actually the person who let me be me. He was like, "Alyssa's not the person who wears the Ann Taylor suit. She's not the kind of person who always says the exact right thing. " And I'm a bit of a wild animal. I brought a different perspective and I was a little bit more irreverent and casual.
There is no such thing as a wrong note. . . just as long as you're singing along.
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.
I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.
If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.
If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.
Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.