At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
I say some silly things now and again.
The simple things can be really powerful.
I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
The simplest things are often the truest.
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.
To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.
I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.
I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
It's hard to simulate the things that I do.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.
Everybody who loves me calls me Sissy, so I guess that's just who I am. When I'm 80, they'll still be calling me Sissy. Oh, well, I guess there are worse things.
Steve had a real sixth sense about so many things. He had an odd connection with wildlife. He was extraordinarily intuitive with people. I found it all very - I don't know if 'eerie' is the word, but remarkable, certainly.
I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.
