You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.
I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'
You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it's a whole different story: you become that character.
Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.
Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you.
In every match, there are difficult decisions; sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes against. You need to be able to accept them.
I've been in a position before where a president has turned to me in the Oval Office in a difficult moment, without any pleasantries, and said, 'I'm asking you as your president and Commander in Chief to take command of the international security force in Afghanistan.' The only response can be, 'Yes, Mr. President.'
I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
I use this brand called Ouidad; they're great. Not Your Mother's is another one. Garnier Fructis. I use a bunch of stuff. Literally, I just throw a huge concoction of stuff in my hair after I get out of the shower, and then I diffuse it.
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
It is very hard to transform your culture and your workforce to be a relevant company in the digital world if all of your processes are stuck in the traditional world.
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
