Me Quotes
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.
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I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
