Quotes About Perspective

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

As long as I get to do the kind of work I want to do, I am okay with being a Z-lister.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'

It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

You have to separate the negative into two categories - half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it's important for us to remember it's okay they don't like us, and sometimes there's no point in engaging in that.

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.

Oklahoma City's not real small; it's got a good amount of the people.

Leaving Oklahoma for Illinois is not the no-brainer some think it is.

I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.