If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.
I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.
I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.
I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
