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.
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
