I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.
Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.
The pressure to perform is actually a privilege. Being left out of the starting rotation is a sign you must work harder.
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.
We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.
There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Just a decade after 'Living in Bondage,' Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural areas, distributed on both the streets and online, and finding their way into international festivals.
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'
It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.
