There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmare after acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like "the answer" to people be...
I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is...
Peter Bradley: [interviewing Eli Cash on television] Now, your previous novel... Eli: Yes, Wildcat. Peter Bradley: Not a success. Why? Eli: Well... Wildcat was written in a kind of obsolete vernacular... [long pause as he starts to become spaced out]...
Tommy Williams: So I'm backing out the door, right, and I got the TV, like this; it was a big old thing, I couldn't see shit; suddenly I hear this voice, "Police, kid, hands in the air." You know, I was standing there, holdin' on to that TV, so final...
You can pick any life area to set goals for - it does not have to be the one where things are going bad.
I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
Vitruvius: We are entering your mind... Emmet: What? Vitruvius: To prove that you have the unlocked potential to be a Master Builder. [Vitruvius and Wyldstyle make chanting noises around Emmet, followed by a big flash of light] Emmet: [floating in sp...
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.
I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.
My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
