Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild in...
Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thou...
Pike Bishop: What would you do in his place? He gave his word. Dutch Engstrom: He gave his word to a railroad. Pike Bishop: It's his word. Dutch Engstrom: That ain't what counts! It's who you give it *to*!
[referring to the bank customers] Crazy Lee: I kill 'em now? Pike Bishop: No. Hold them here until the shooting starts. Crazy Lee: I'll hold 'em here 'til Hell freezes over or you say different.
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And painting...
I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I nev...
Bad's the best of us.
I'm not a big traveller.
I was a daddy's girl.
I'm on a search for the truth.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Cheapness is a great virtue.
An index is a great leveller.
When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.
There is such a thing as bad publicity.
I do not have OCD OCD OCD.
Christianity is such a silly religion.
I was a closet stutterer.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
It's not easy to define poetry.
Hugging is not my shtick.
