I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
Having a solo career is a funny thing.
The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.
It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.
I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.
I know it's not a one man team win or lose.
Every day is not perfect.
It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.
Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.
I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.
Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.
For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.
When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.
There is beauty and humility in imperfection.
If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.
