I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.
Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.
The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.
Thinking you're a genius is death.
I'm quite shy, really. The figure you see on TV, that's just a persona. I like getting home, putting my feet up, getting into my slippers and dressing gown.
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down.
I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work.
You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo is. You come to see Primus for the musical experience and the visual experience. I think, anyways. Maybe I'm wrong!
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.
I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.
'Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.
I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
I think it's important to do whatever makes you feel your best.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.
I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.
What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
