To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear. " And you know what he said? "I can't hear you.
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.
Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. And yes, I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.
I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.