Doing Quotes
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
