We Can Quotes

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

I will not ever run for political office, I can assure you of that.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!

The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.

If you're good at it, you can win.

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt are part of the deal you can count me out but if your talking about a game I can win You can count me in

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.