While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.
I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.
One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.
It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
I've got so much money it's ridiculous.
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.
The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.
My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.
I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.
Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.
It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.
As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are.
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
