I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.
It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.
Never assume someone is smarter than you.
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.
If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just. . . us.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
Culture means control over nature.