My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.
What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.
Doing ensembles and shows is one thing, but being able to front a feature is totally different. You can be a great actor, and supertalented, but there's something about carrying a feature that's unique.
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.
I felt like jumping out a window when I heard Streisand was doing it. I'd played it four and a half years - I thought Dolly was mine. But after the initial shock wore off, I realized no great part is ever exclusively anybody's.
Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I've had many strike partners over the years and usually their aim is to outscore you - and take great pleasure in doing so.
I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.
Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.
