I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.
I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.
We have a nanny in the house, but there are always times when one of my kids does something bad or wrong, and they'll listen to me more than they do the nanny. So I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for them at a young age, so they will know, 'I better listen to Mommy.'
Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.
I always loved to entertain and show off in front of the neighbors. I would sing and dance at their houses.
Speed can't always get you wickets.
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.
I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.
I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.
I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.
I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
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.
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.
As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.
I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
The way of the pioneer is always rough.
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.
I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.
