Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn’t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in the outside

Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

If you can’t manage the future, you don’t have a future.

My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.