I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.
I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.
My take on gentrification and change is it's usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that means there are more jobs.
I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.
Direction is something that interests me. Even while shooting, I always have conversations with the director to get a better understanding of shooting technicalities.
Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.
Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.
I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.