Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I shop, therefore I am.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.
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There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
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I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
