The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Hell there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

When I was in elementary school I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired you don't have that hunger.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

All the best performers bring to their role something more something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

When you do something best in life you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it don't eat it.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East you just do the best you can.

The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to confide in one's self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched you are enormously fragile.

I don't know why it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it since it's fundamentally emotional.

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.