I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.
There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to grow.
I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.
I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.
I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.
I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.
'Instructions Not Included' is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a special project. They love seeing their own people; they want to see themselves onscreen. In my case, I know them pretty well. I know what they laugh at. I think it's going to open a lot of doors, this movie.
I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.
I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
I think, for OPEC, the main challenge is to have a price level which brings good profits to them, good incentives for the investments, but at the same time, to prevent prices going to very high levels.
I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.
I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.
I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open door isn't enough.
That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.
