I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.
I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.
I know that I don't look like a footballer but I've always enjoyed working out and I've always been bigger than most people out there. I come from big stock. If you see my brothers and me together, we look like a wrestling tag team trio.
Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.
I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.
Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.
Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.
I'm not a big fan of revolutions. People nearly always call for them when a team that's triumphed a great deal goes a year without winning anything. For me, however, the experience gained in previous victories is important.
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.
Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.
