Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don’t speak. People speak, and people are loud.
When people go through something rough in life, they say, ‘I’m taking it one day at a time.’ Yes, so is everybody. Because that’s how time works.
My work is really simple. They say ‘action,’ I do my stuff; they say, ‘cut!’
When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, ‘Hi! How are you?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, hi!’ And then I realize, ‘Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.’ Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
I like it when someone tells me ‘I don’t agree.’ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‘Oh, how great, how great, how great,’ that’s not useful.
I am only an actress when they say, ‘action’ and I stop being an actress when they say, ‘cut’. I am a normal person outside of acting.
I understand what it can feel like when people are bullying you, and you can’t just seem to catch a break, and people don’t see who you are. And people completely paint their own picture. And you’re supposed to zip it and just go along with whatever they say.
It’s so cheap to store all data. It’s cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.
There’s nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, ‘Be yourself.’ That’s not why I became an actress. That’s what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn’t become an actor so I could show you me.
Everyone can have a rough day at the office, as they say. I’ve had those myself many times when the bell rings.
They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.
I look at old interviews and things and they say, ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ I say, ‘I want to be a producer.’ And I’m really fortunate that I was able to do it.
That’s that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It’s something different.
It’s true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River.
Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, ‘You’re in charge of your life, buster. You’re responsible for any condition you’re in.’ If I look at it that way, it helps.
I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don’t have the time to over-think things and how that helps things out creatively.
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it’s because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don’t know.
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother’s milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
People think the gold medal is yours and they say you’re going to win – but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren’t doing it negatively – they’re mostly lovely and they really do want you to win – but they don’t understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.
You see all the movies where people say, ‘Don’t fight out of anger’? They say that for a reason.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I’m interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
I don’t read critics, and I don’t care what they say. You can’t let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it’s terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, ‘I’m going do this: France, you’re getting the pipelines.’
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, ‘Where have you been?’ The second comment they make is always, ‘Oh, you’ve grown up.’
They say, ‘Don’t celebrate against your old team,’ but I couldn’t hold it in.
As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don’t care if they say, ‘Ghastly, horrible’… I live for the beautiful angels.
In my job, people tell you that all the time: ‘This shoot was great. You look amazing.’ But you never know what they say when you turn away.
They say now in America that final cut doesn’t mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, ‘You can have final cut. I’ll open your film in Arkansas.’
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
They say seven stages of grief. I think it’s more like 77.
I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say ‘No’ to parts they should have said ‘Yes’ to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t do that.’ I’ll do it all.
When I do the roles, when I’m in the room and auditioning, I’ll ask the director if they’re cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we’re doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, ‘Absolutely.’
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn’t leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?
I’m a writer. Now I’ve started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
I think a lot of people don’t actually know me. They think, ‘She’s like this,’ or, ‘She’s like that.’ They say I have no emotions – I do, but you couldn’t see them then. I had to keep them inside.
As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don’t care how much they say you’re great, don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it’s not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess – any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it’s good, they say, ‘Let’s do another one for insurance.’
If you’re a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write – to finish the poem, as they say.
There isn’t a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say.
The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
I didn’t realize the connection between the mullet and success. For sure, you have to have a little bit of hockey hair – a little bit of flow, as they say. A lot of guys have fun with their hockey hair, so I’ll try to keep it a little long.
All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.
My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There’s nothing really crammed into it.
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn’t give it up for anything in the world. It won’t last forever, either. But the memories will.
