If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.

I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character.

I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!

I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

I have people come onstage and ask me questions and I get to meet them. That's one of the reasons I like it. When you're performing, when you're doing your movies, they're not there with you.