What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.
I’m the policy-maker; I’m the lawmaker.
If I can’t negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I’m not a very good representative of my party.
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
It wouldn’t do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can’t carry on the campaign elsewhere.
My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.
President Obama’s decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
You ought to serve on the platform you run on.
The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. A psychotic is a guy who’s just found out what’s going on.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.
Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal.
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they’re all individuals and they’re all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
I don’t think you should ever damage other people for your art.
I don’t wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I’m very prudish.
I don’t really think about roles – “dream roles.” It’s always about who’s gonna be the person on the screen or who’s gonna be the person on the stage and who’s gonna direct it and put it all together.
Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don’t think I’m particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I’m also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.
The toughest part of acting is never a single thing. It’s more like a whole character. I find film really difficult – trying to make it feel like a consistent character when you’re filming everything out of order.
It’s tricky playing people that you don’t like and finding a way to empathise with them. It’s challenging and very exciting for an actor.
It’s always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.
I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well.
I’m not great at having my picture taken and I don’t enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it’s nice to have a reunion.
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.
I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn’t always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.
On the one hand, we’ll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.
Violence – look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
You can’t undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.
I just have more fun when I get to try new things – and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time to learn about adoption today.
There’s two types of acting: convincing and not convincing. People describe me as intense. It’s because I care. I am a pain in the ass because I care. Do I know what I’m doing? No. Do I have the best of intentions? Yes. Does that lead to hell? Sometimes.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
I’m just getting settled as a responsible man – but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
There’s always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.
We are survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead.
One remembers those one looks up to more readily than those you look down upon.
Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?
I think it’s important that you always transform if you can. That’s what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can – that’s the key to longevity.
I didn’t understand how you could do something which is so much fun and be so miserable doing it.
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of ten, that says more about them than you.
