When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.
If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.
That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.
During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.
A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.
I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.
I feel happy working in the low-budget realm, doing stuff that is a little bit more esoteric, and personal.
I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair.
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
I love working with producers, like doing the record with Laidback Luke on 'Turbulence' and working with Afrojack on 'No Beef.'
Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.
Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.
Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
