As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.
Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
In Portland, I am more involved in the details of trade discussions because I've been around that sport longer and can watch tape and can give some input to the drafting process. In football, not at all. It's so specialized.
Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health.
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.
After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.
I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.
I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
Players don't change drastically. Maybe they get more in form if they're a goal scorer, or they get healthier if they've been injured.
