The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.
Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.
I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.
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