I don't do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal - readings before the actual shooting - but I don't like this process because I think there are certain things that are so spontaneous, and they cannot happen twice.
You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'
I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
There's nothing like real love. Nothing.
I always talk about my characters like they're real people.
We have this real problem as human beings to put people on pedestals - with celebrities, with historical figures - and we forget they're humans just like us.
Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.
During the campaign, Trump in many ways repudiated President Obama's national security and foreign policy approach on issues like the Iran nuclear deal and immigration. So there's a real question of continuity or disruption with Trump, which wouldn't have existed if Clinton was president-elect.
I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
But like everyone else I’ve come to the sad realisation food banks are an all-too-common feature on the streets of Britain.
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.
I like physically-demanding reality shows, not dance and music shows.
