Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.
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I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
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Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
