You Quotes
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
