I went around the corner to motion pictures.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature. . . that's what takes a long time to learn.
Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.
I had the right to remain silent. . . but I didn't have the ability.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. . . And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.
When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.