I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that...
I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.
I'm really excited to get into the horror-comedy space.
'Halloween' is such a classic, and I think that was one of the first horror movies I've ever watched.
Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
I try and improve each and every game.
I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.
I don't think you should limit what you read.
The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.
What makes a good festival, above all, is the audience. It feels disconnected when it's meant to bring in people from elsewhere and not meant for the people who actually live there.
Like a physical body, a body politic must have an immune system that resists anti-Semitism and other forums of hatred.
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
Maybe I am a little bit of a clown, but I am also a serious sportsman.
I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.
I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I...
I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.
If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new...
I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.
I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer.
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
Singing these days has become a mechanical exercise for many, and mostly this is because song situations that require effort from the heart are rare to come by.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Actually, I love watching good golf for obvious reasons, but I don't take inspiration from other golfers as much.
Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....