Thing Quotes

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

I think it’s such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together.

I think it’s a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn’t matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them.

One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.

When I go back in to re-record a line. I’m the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that’s wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, ‘Let’s do that again tomorrow.’

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.

I’m fighting against becoming soft. That’s the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.