You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.
I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.
To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.
If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
I have no interest in bantering back and forth with someone who is the exact person that I am trying not to become, and stay away from, by degrading women, by going after my family, in a manner that is intended to harm.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.
I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.
Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.
I don't believe for a second 'X Factor' would deliberately put someone through who wasn't mentally stable.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.
Asking someone to be with us turns out to be an impossibly demanding and therefore pretty mean thing to suggest to anyone we would really want the best for.
