In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.
Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.
I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.
Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.
God bless all who serve or have served our country.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.
I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.
