Me Quotes
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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Ru Paul knew details of the 'Burnett Show' that even surprised me.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
