We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
I'm a ham who wants to be a small part of anything.
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and poets, so anything they ask me to do for Smokey is going to get a yes.
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
I don't have any social life or anything.
'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
It's not like I'm the lead actor or anything. But it's really cool to be in a Steven Soderbergh movie.
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.