I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Two conspirators with a frog following the line of a whiffletree.

Our element is unending immaturity.

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.

In a polite society, a well maintained skincare routine is one of life's great successes.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Let the people who love your work know that you appreciate them, because that's how you build your fans.

I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.

My family members are vegetarians, but I like mutton and chicken seekh kebabs.

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.

My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.