A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.
Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.
I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.
Do not waste time trying to change the world - just look for something that you are useful.
People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.
Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.
Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.
There's a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I'm more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what's out there now, I'm just going to do El DeBarge.
I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.
We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
