Me Quotes
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
