When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.
All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
I've always been obsessed with bad, awkward television and bad public access. Before YouTube, it was a treat coming across that stuff. When I moved to New York, I used to love watching public access late at night.
Sentimental is not bad, but itβs probably the most likely to go awry. Itβs the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just donβt want it to be maudlin.
Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back, and - not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys - they didn't play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.
Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'
I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
If I'm in a bad mood, or if I'm uncomfortable, it's probably what I'm wearing that's making me feel that way.
We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
