The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
I quickly came to realize that in the Middle East, God is God, and in the West, the sponsor is God - or, as I like to say, Tide detergent is God.
I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'
I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.
I say, 'If somebody steals something of yours, then it's good; he loves what you do.'
Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.
Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.
I've spoken with Raheem Sterling and Jordan Henderson, and they say the Premier League's the place to be. It's where I want to get to, and getting there with Palace would be nice.
