I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.
You become a great writer by writing.
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
Sean's a great, great writer.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
I'm not a great writer.
