Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.
Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
Let them eat cake.
With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
I love prayer candles, and I use them often.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Facebook captures examples of inequality and makes them available for endless replay. Twitter links the voiceless to newsmakers. Instagram immortalizes the faces and consequences of discrimination. Isolated cruelties are yoked into a powerful narrative of marginalization that spurs a common cause.
Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.