A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.
Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.
I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.
I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.
A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt. '
It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.
My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization.
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.
Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution. ' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can. '
I have a Volvo S60R and its a pretty fast car, the R says it all.
My roommate says, "I'm going to take a shower and shave. Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" It's like some weird quiz where he reveals the answer first.
I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great-it travelled into immediate communication.
I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.