The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin FranklinIf you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Dwayne JohnsonIt is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston ChurchillTouring is hard on the body.
EminemThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleA leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao TzuI’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.
Paul AusterWith compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
Thich Nhat HanhThe high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert EinsteinWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsChristmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. ForbesI would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
Maya AngelouLoving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce MeyerA gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard ShawOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert EinsteinI usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
The WeekndThose who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
PlatoYeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
David ByrneJust as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert SchweitzerOne thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerIt is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles DickensWhat I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.
Bruno MarsIf you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
Noam ChomskyThere are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise PascalThe first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.
Paul AusterI learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis PresleyOver the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.
Kamala HarrisI have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘
Joseph AddisonOur focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.
Kanye WestWhen you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.
Joel OsteenI was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.
Abby Lee MillerThis thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will RogersHe who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich NietzscheTell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
Dale CarnegieThink about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
Mark ZuckerbergIt is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. TrumanMoral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma GandhiWhat we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLet us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMany churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
Billy GrahamA film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.
George LucasI think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
Anne FrankThe wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao TzuI fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘
Russell M. NelsonThe only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Marcus AureliusMany Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
Dalai LamaAdvertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.
Mark ZuckerbergA lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Bob DylanHow to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
ConfuciusI went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan ThomasIf you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.
Kevin HartWe ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus AureliusEarn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
Taylor SwiftNothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. LewisThe reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
Brian EnoNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens