I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?
She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.
For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
Demons exist,' he says simply, as if talking about the weather. 'They are real and they are dangerous. We hunt them when necessary and return them when we can.
The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.
Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
