Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

Over 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.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

A chorus is not easy.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Ability without honor is useless.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Before all else, be armed.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Our work is never over.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.