I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?
I don't talk about anything negative.
I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.
There are no big groupie fans or anything.
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
I never predict anything, and I never will.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.
I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.
The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
My real life is funnier than anything on TV.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
I don't know anything about a stock!
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.