The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.
My rule is to save myself first.
Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.
Some people come to work and that’s exactly what it is – work.
I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.
I know how I get hard. Running on a treadmill behind women in a gym normally does it for me.
What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you’re put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.
The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.
I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you’re not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time – and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.
If you’re too weak to handle failure and disappointment, then you’re too weak to handle success, which will only end up damaging your life and happiness.
There’s a giant gap between what you imagine yourself doing and what you’re capable of doing and it hurts pretty bad when you fall into that gap.
But at times, life is random if not downright stupid.
Kids can say anything in a mocking, singsong voice, and make it sound uncool. “You have ears. Nyah-nyah-na-nyah-nyah, you have eee-ars and they’re on the side of your fay-ace!
Every experience is a potential life lesson. Even if you don’t appreciate it at the time, each struggle in the present is preparing you for something else in the future.
Because no matter how low you go and how lost you feel, there is always tomorrow. And tomorrow just may be the day when you get lifted up and find your way.
It’s spoken with a shoulder shrug, a side-to-side of the head, and roll of the eyes. It means: “I can’t even fathom your reality, but I’ve decided to just accept it and move on.