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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

You can't be a victim and heal.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.

You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.

I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines, it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

I just sing. You have to use it.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday, you have to act.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

Winning, you can overlook so many things.

Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

You're always going to have terrorism.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Never regret what you don't write.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

If you give a party, you better give it right.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

I'm like a fungus, you can't get rid of me.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal, he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.

I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.

I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours, you can't be a fan of mine!

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

You can't really do a big character in an action film, you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.

I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.

The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.