Balance Ein Teil / Apart Entweder / Either Erscheint / Appears Fallen / Falling Grund / Reason Kennt / Know Leute / People Schauspielkunst / Acting Systeme / Systems Verdrehte / Twisted Weg / Way Wollen / Want
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.
Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
