George Washington Quotes
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
Quotes to Explore
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
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I will tell my best friends who I'm attracted to, but I'm not going to talk about it in a newspaper... It has nothing to do with my work.
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
