Auditioning is the worst.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

Giving is a quality of God Himself

Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.