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Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Multimedia scares me off.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.