Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.