Quotes
Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, 'Humor studies would that be, sir?'
I want to more deep feeling and more deep stories. I want to talk with Ed [Zwick] and Tom [Cruise] and it's so difficult.
I have no name in the United States. I feel a freshman, and the-my career has no meaning in Japan.
I do pay attention to the way the script envisages the world and how that view is conveyed through the roles, as well as what the director wants to express.
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
Smart kids ask questions.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, "Oh, I don't like it." One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.
In case you haven't heard, the Internet is not a superhighway.
Lemuel K. Washburn
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.