Up Quotes
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It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.
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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
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It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.
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'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' is interesting, intriguing.
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There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
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I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.
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I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
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In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
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I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.
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We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.
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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
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Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
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The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
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Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just false. But black folks fight the hardest for our communities. Before governments do, before other people do, we're the first ones to show up. We are the first ones to fight for our lives.
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My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.
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I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
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They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
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I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.
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Friends give us the change to lift the blinds on our hearts to open up and show what we generally keep hidden from the rest of world.
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I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.
