In most cases, I think most executive producers and studio executives really do their best to accommodate you. At least, that's been my experience in most cases.
We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.
You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.
You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.
You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.
Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
To truly launch a great product, you need partners. Channel and marketing partners share in your success and share in the costs of reaching your target audience.
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
