In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

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

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Love is only one of many passions.

I love being in a courtroom.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.