A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You’re not saying ‘OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?’ That’s always been in the forefront of my mind.
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he’ll go, ‘OK, how about Armenia?’
We try to do that for stories – we try to say, ‘OK, here’s the message, here’s the theme, here’s the good people and the bad.’ Life is not nearly like that.
The first time onstage, a light went on. ‘OK, this is my thing. I’m comfortable here. This is my thing.’
My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day – Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, ‘OK, enough of this.’ I would sing Usher’s ‘U Remind Me’ to the girls in school.
Any parent who tells their kids that they can’t attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It’s OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it’s not all right to miss the majority of them.
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn’t make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
I hardly look at myself in the mirror… I’ll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I’ve recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, ‘OK, maybe it’s time to start thinking about it.’ Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
People were saying, ‘He’s worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!’ Even I laughed. In my head, I said, ‘OK, you’ve seen the bad side, now come see the good side’.
Don’t be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.
I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn’t until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
I’ve seen a lot in my life. I’ve seen a lot of winning. I’ve seen a lot of testing times. I think when you’re tested, you really find out what you’re made of, OK?
I read a lot of scripts, and there’s a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn’t necessarily speak to me.
I’ve always had that mindset of, ‘OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don’t get too high, don’t get too low – just enjoy it.’ Don’t ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I’m not going to an amusement park, I’m going to a baseball field.
I think, no matter who you are, at some point in your life you’ve probably said, ‘OK, well, who am I, and where do I fit in?’
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
Going through SEAL training taught me that it’s OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.
I’ve always been like this – insecure – because I’m striving for something that can’t be attained. I don’t just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I’ve never achieved that in my mind.
I’m not a sexy person. I’m OK with it. I’ve never been the sexy girl. Whenever I’ve had a boyfriend, he’s always been like, ‘Oh, you’re cute.’
If you do a trick and it doesn’t work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, ‘OK, I’m cool, it’s all good.’
The hardest thing as somebody who does both is – and I’m very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist – is learning that it’s OK to be versatile.
I know what I like in other actors: truth. That’s the best. It makes you say, ‘OK, I’ll go with you on this.’
I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people rely on the textbook: ‘OK, it says to do this and it says to do that, so if I do this, this, and that, then I still can go out and do wrong because I did this, this, and that.’
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.
George Bush is not stupid. He’s evil. OK? There’s a huge difference between stupid and evil.
OK, I’m not what you’d call ‘wild.’ But I’m no prude, either – I love to party, and I play a mean game of pool.
I really, really like ‘In Rainbows.’ But I also really like ‘OK Computer’ as a sort of flipside to that. ‘Reckoner’ is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, ‘Idioteque,’ and ‘Pyramid Song’ are my top three.
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world – the money is OK but it is no life at all.
OK, he and Katie fell in love, they’re getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?
There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I’m OK with it.
My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I’ve ever known, and I have definitely got that in my personality: that ability to sort of smash the house up and then say, ‘Put the kettle on,’ to have that kind of attitude of, ‘Well, I’m OK now, so everybody else has got to be OK.’
Live and think like a poor man and you’ll always be OK.
I think, if you can, it’s OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.
When I’m working, I don’t wake up and say, ‘OK, time to go be intense.’ I just look at whatever scenes we’re working on that day and break them down – just real intense everyday work.
A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, ‘Wait a minute. This apartment doesn’t have a ceiling.’ The landlord answers, ‘That’s OK. The people upstairs don’t walk around that much.’
Somebody showed me a picture of some event I went to back in the day, and I was really going heavy on the turquoise jewelry, and it was not good. I was like, ‘OK, I guess that was a phase that needed to happen.’
If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
I am really OK with the way I look. It’s fine. All this is transient. I mean, it’s really, you know, it changes with time, and that’s the external.
I want to act for the rest of my life – and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct ‘Twilight’ kind of made me think, ‘OK yeah, I really want to do this now.’ This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out – I thought that was really cool.
I grew up being into sports and I wasn’t trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I’m the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it’s always, ‘OK, one more take for Zac.’
We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you’ve read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you’re using.
I knew two things from my father: keep working hard, stay humble, and someday you’ll be OK.
I’m from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I’m OK.
I think with actors, if you just don’t set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you’re usually OK.
It’s OK to stay at a job that you don’t enjoy, because you’re scared.
To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it’s OK to eat the ones that don’t have any nuts.
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, ‘OK, that’s enough for you. Now go away.’ What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn’t think would be as big as ‘night, Mother.’
Once in a while I’ll get moved to do some exercise. It’s something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I’m OK.
My son was diagnosed with autism. He’s OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn’t talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn’t even believe me if I told you how much it costs.
