Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
Gratification comes when you help someone else.
We are all united by both pain and love. Both a smile and a wound. We are all united by these very basic yet very influential things, because we all recognize them, we all know what they feel like to have or to give. Everything else, all the other th...
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.
When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.
I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling peacefully along, and all the time Life's waiting around...
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tuesday? But at eight, 10, 12, you don't realise you'...
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street
In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil.
