H. T. Leslie Quotes

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.

She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

Not my will, but Yours be done.

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

Written by a woman automatically is better.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

We discovered that we have a fun chemistry physically. Cameron [Diaz] has really long legs and a short torso, and I have a really long torso and shorter legs.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.

We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.

You won't see Moonves on Twitter.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

Any sport that comes from Scotland is good!

Sometimes integrity is a punch in the face.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

Today, in my career, I'm doing what I love to do. And that is, do things for the fun - do comedy. It's a pleasure to go for the laughter.

I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.