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"When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can."
"I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of."
"If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places."
"A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it."
"A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit."
"If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so."
"I'm trying not to change."
"The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?"
"Don't ever try to be somebody you're not."
"I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once."
"Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help."
"What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball."
"We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!"
"You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy."
"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 try to do something the audience might not have seen before."
"I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it."
"When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together."
"Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed up in that and end up making movies that are indistinguishable from anybody else's. One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine. But that also comes from what you choose to do and what you choose not to do. There are certain projects I could have said yes to, and I know exactly how they would have turned out: exactly the way they turned out when someone else did them."
"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me."
