I adopted a motto: Never say no. Jim Morrison never said no, Kurt Cobain never said no. You couldn't have great things to write about if all you did was sit in your living room with your roommates talking about the phone bill.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

One of the great things about being a professional football player is visiting countries and seeing cultures you might never see.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.

If we put our differences aside, we can do great things.

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

I don't have just one role model - rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.

When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

When Congress puts party labels aside, like we did on VA reform, we can accomplish some great things for the American people. But those occasions were far too rare.