Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts.
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( , New York Times, February 22, 1987)
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.
I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.
No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.
She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says. 'Which part?,' I ask. 'Being human.
I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
