I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I like Cardi B!

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I like a drama.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I really like children to watch my movies.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Computers double their performance every month.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

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

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.