Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, ...
I think credibility is one of those things that, if you work hard and you get it by standing in the trenches and traveling the world, people realize you're multi-faceted. Part of me is a serious journalist and I loved all of the stuff I did. And then...
As far as I can figure, the way that it works is this: everyone has something that happened to them. The thing that we each carry. And you can see it in people, if you look. See it in the way someone walks, in the way someone takes a compliment, some...
I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.
I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.
I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.
In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.
It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.
The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you're in scenes with.
At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.
Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.
I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.
When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.
People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.
