We Can Quotes

I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

I can't figure it out yet, just how to make it perfect for you, but I'm closer than I was yesterday

I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's nothing I can do about it.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.

Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

I can be out auditioning but a lot of times it's word of mouth more than anything - having worked on other projects with people who might see you and recommend for other projects and vice versa.

If I can survive, I can be somebody tomorrow.

I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know what you want to achieve and project throughout the course of the film.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

No matter who is in the White House, I just keep doing what my grandmother taught me. Hate debt. Save. The best any of us can do really.

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.