Northrop Frye Quotes
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
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In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.
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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
