I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it’s getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

I’m not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There’s no way you can get involved in a racket and...

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that’s normal, so I’ll just get...

I haven’t thought about getting into production. I’m interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I’ll have to go over and over it again.

I’m not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no...

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults… When you’re fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight...

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfilment out of doing the thing you love.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don’t have to gird your loins, if that’s not quite the...

I created an online program that has audio lessons and PDF worksheets and two hours of video. So it’s like a course you can do at home. And people are loving it and getting jobs...

It’s tough to be a or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There’s tension, there’s media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

I recently finished a job, an HBO movie ‘Getting On,’ a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and...

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I’m hoping I can offer an example.

I’m grateful this ordeal is over, and I’m so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don’t build it top...

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

When I was on ‘SNL,’ I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I...

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to...

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I’m getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that’s the complete opposite of who I am.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they’re covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on...

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I’m not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they’d let me know right away.

When you’re in that upper echelon in wrestling, any movie you take is gonna be a pay cut. If you’re gone for three months and they pay you 150 grand, you’re getting killed.

Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

You break your neck, you don’t know what’s going to happen. I mean, it’s foreign. You’re in this body that you thought you were – that you were accustomed to, and now you’re not. You...

This economy is not getting better and the president’s policies are the reason.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.

Promotions can be seen in two ways – either you hate them, and they’re a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was...

I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I’ve got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying...

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you’ll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or...

I, and others like me – trap stars – we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you...

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.

When a child wants to be accepted, he’ll do anything. And if it means you’re getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that’s what you’ll do.

I was always in bands before, but on ‘American Idol,’ it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don’t get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to...

Pianists don’t argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

There’s not too many things I’m afraid of, but I’m not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.