When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappear...
Ace Rothstein: This is the end result of all the bright lights, and the comp trips, and all the champagne, and free hotel suites, and all the broads and all the booze. It's all been arranged just for us to get *your money*.
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may ...
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
Men can bear all things except good days.
Who rises late must trot all day.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'
I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.
