I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Rather be dead than cool.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.