You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."
Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.
I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people want it to be, but it feels like a routine people are going through.
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.
We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?
I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.
It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.
