I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave,...

When you’re blessed, you’ve got to be sensitive to people that don’t have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

You can’t beat somebody with nobody.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there’s another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you’re dressing up and deciding...

It’s a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

We’re both accustomed to being the center of attention. We’re both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don’t expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

I think there’s something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see...

If you’re already somebody who’s feeling different, you’ll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to ‘Kashmir’ was a debacle.

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring...

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who’s willing to fail because those can’t be conceived. They never play if...

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.

I didn’t have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don’t know how many feet – maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody...

I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn’t know Music Row, I didn’t know anything! So after six or seven months, I...

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I’m shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won’t sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I’m certainly not going to go on somebody’s lawn. Could you...

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you’re a part of somebody’s life for an hour and a half.

I’ve never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

I’m always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Our show is different, because it’s not about law and order, it’s about psychology, the intent of somebody.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song… somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

When somebody is making a movie about your life, that’s different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible....

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don’t just drop them.

When you write it doesn’t occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I’m not.

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like...

The pop-star thing bores me because it’s somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don’t say that, say this, hold...

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you’re on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It’s very bizarre...

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying ‘get with the program, be a team player;’ this is what we saw at Enron, this is what...

I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they’re being offended by that.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I’d love to do a romantic comedy, and I’d love to do some period pieces with classical text. I’d love somebody...

A book is a journey: It’s a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader’s experience of a book is going to be different.

You may be a person I admire, but you can’t be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone’s favourite, but you are someone’s favourite whether you like them or not.

If I could have anybody I haven’t had, I’d want to interview somebody like Jay-Z or Puff Daddy, pick their minds a little bit.

It’s a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody’s arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

I gotta tell you, I don’t have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

Anybody can say what everybody says, but somebody should also do that nobody does of what being widely but only said,to be considered a true leader.

I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of...