When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
I don't really think about a visual aspect to the work at all; I just think about making the piece. And everything that occurs visually comes out of the subject matter you are dealing with so that I find it difficult to treat the visual element as a ...
People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and peop...
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war...
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Small fruit is better than big words.
I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
I'm very happy being big and effeminate.
I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
I am worth something and I will be big.
I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why.
Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.
No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.
I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.
I've always been a big reader.