The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.
When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.
From its conception and that one and only meeting, 'HITNRUN' took about 90 days to prepare its release. If that's what freedom feels like, 'HITNRUN' is what it sounds like.
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
Faced with global challenges, politicians like Donald Trump have played on the fears and concerns of the American people with divisive, hateful rhetoric and proposals.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!
