Even at that age I had stumbled upon one truth, and that is, the best way to get misinformed is to ask a lot of questions.
A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.
Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.
You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
I’ve had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you’ve really Joeled it up – there’s some good periods of Joel; it’s not all hot cheese. But I can’t judge anyone else for their cheese. I’ve deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
Every movie presents its challenges.
With the acting, it’s somebody else’s brainchild, and I’m just sort of helping flesh it out. There’s a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
There’s something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can’t live with each other makes you feel there’s something wrong with you.
We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.
I don’t really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it’s boring it’s boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it’s for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.
I’m always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.
Part of the acting gig is when you’re let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn’t get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.
The books so fired me with the desire for travel, adventure, romance, that I was miserable most of the time.
I say they had character because, while they did wrong things, they always tried to do them in the right way and at the right time.
Every time I stole a dollar I knew I was breaking a law and working a hardship on the loser. Yet for years I kept on doing it. I wonder how many of us quit wronging others for the best reason of all – because it is wrong, and we know it.
I’m going to write about them as I took them – with a smile.
The whipping post is a strange place to gather fresh confidence and courage, yet that’s what it gave me, and in that dark cell I left behind many fears and misgivings.
Looking back at it, it seems to me that I was blown here and there like a dead leaf whipped about by the autumn winds till at last it finds lodgment in some cozy fence corner. When I left school at fourteen I was as unsophisticated as a boy could be; I knew no more of the world and its strange ways than the gentle, saintly woman who taught me my prayers in the convent. Before me twentieth birthday I was on the docket of criminal court, on trial for burglary.
My experience with short rations in many places has convinced me that we would all be healthier and better nourished if we ate half as much food and chewed it twice as long.
Beneath the clothes, we find a man. And beneath the man... we find... his nucleus.