A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
The work that I've gotten in the hiatuses seems to indicate that I will have a little more work after 'Mad Men' than I did when I was scraping by while I was temping in New York, but who knows? People very easily could be like, 'Meh, we're done with that. We've got Jon Hamm. We're good without the weird one with glasses.'
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid.
People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.
I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former.
When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
