Behind every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes.
You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my garden, and i go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.
