I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I'm not really a pianist.

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.

It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.

I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Hey beautiful You must be tired after running all day in my mind.

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

Blunt belief destroys life.

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

The only time I don't get nervous is if I'm doing a home club in L.A. and I know all of my friends there because then I play to my friends. When I first started doing comedy, I hated it when my friends came; it made me more nervous. Now I just try to make them laugh.