I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.
I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.
Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.
I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.