You Quotes
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
