Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain.
When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.
How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
There's a little bit of James Angleton in every CIA officer. Counterintelligence implants a portion of Angleton’s DNA inside us when we EOD.
In real life, espionage and sex have so little to do with one another that for all practical purposes they could be married.
Remember: if everyone else gives 110% effort, and you give 120%, you're really only giving a little over 109%.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, the world would be a little better place to live.
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.
I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.
I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
