Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

I fight for people's entertainment, but at the same time that entertainment comes at a cost.

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there's so much stress that often you don't even pay attention to the luxuries.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on my stomach. I have to be mad to be working well anyway, and then I am mad about the way things are going on the page in addition. My ulcer flourishes and I have to chew lots of pills. When my work is going well, I am usually sort of sick.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.

A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

A joke is necessary at this time.

How the world can change, It can change like that, Due to one little word: "Married.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.