Up Quotes
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.
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I grew up in a happy household.
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.
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I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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'I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.'
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
