“There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

“The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I ha...”

“Elves are cool, man.”

“I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.”

“Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?”

“I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.”

“Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.”

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own wo...”

“I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.”

“Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely t...”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”