I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
I do like trying bold things such as styling, even usually.
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
I kind of think we sort of subconsciously draw things into our lives, whatever we're trying to work through.
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.
I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.
Gifted Nutrition was able to show me that they had FDA-compliant ingredients in their supplements. I thought that was really huge, especially when you are trying to show people that you are a natural athlete.
My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.
If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying to get me to do there, I'd be O.K. now.