Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.
You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.
You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook.
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.
As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.
The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.
I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
People who like my stuff and know what my agenda is have never mistaken me for being racist or poking fun at the wrong thing.
I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty for at least a third of the population of country tremendously wealthy thanks to oil.
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.
I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.
I don't want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody's political beliefs. I've never done that. I've never tried to get involved in those things.
