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This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.
...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.
In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it.
I think all of our concerts, really, as parties. It's a performance for sure. It's not a recital. It's a celebration of that music.
Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.
One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.
It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.
We must respect the referee every time.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
It's weird when you get roles that coincide with your life.
Americans want to democratise us. OK, but why not go and democratise Saudi Arabia. Are we anything like Saudi Arabia? No, we are far from that. So why aren't they democratising Saudi Arabia? Because they are bastards, but they are their bastards.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
When I took on Everest, I'm not there for the views.
