Yeah, writers do hate writing.
Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you’re tired, and you don’t know why. Then everybody says, ‘Oh you are so lucky, you are working!’ And you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, oh yeah, it’s so great!’
Yeah you just have to be true to yourself, know where you come from, make sure that your relationships with family members back in country, back home, are really strong so that connection is always there.
Oh yeah, we all write. That’s what’s great about when you have basics in piano.
Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.
Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.
Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.
Are there a lot of Jews in Hollywood? Yeah, there are.
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The – generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The – if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
Yeah, football can change a person’s life, it changes a lot of people’s lives. You can see the kids we work with. You can you make their day just by them meeting you, that’s lovely, that’s great.
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I’m nowhere near Einstein’s caliber.
I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it’s really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, ‘Well, I didn’t like the love story,’ but it was probably just too long.
Yeah… I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what’s happened with ‘Idol,’ it has got me past so much of that.
When you don’t win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That’s normal.
Oh yeah; I love when I’m writing something that makes me cry – that’s so cool. If it got me to do that, it’s going to get someone else to do that.
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it’s scary.
Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That’s all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
Yeah, the record for most titles was previously held by the Fabulous Moolah, she won it four times. And a few weeks ago, I won the title for the sixth time, which has never been done before.
No one who has gotten second place at a Grand Slam is ever like, ‘Yeah, now I feel fine about it.’ Everyone wants the other trophy. But it inspires you to work harder and get yourself in that position again so that you can use what you’ve learned.
Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn’t really want it then.
Yeah, I’ve been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don’t get he part.
Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that’s your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
I was like, ‘I’ve got to watch some more of these.’ And yeah, I watched ‘E.T.,’ which I absolutely love. I’m not a big crier, but that just always makes me cry.
When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.
I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it’s difficult to do, it’s really the actors medium of course, because you’re really out there and nobody’s yelling cut so, yeah I have.
My legs are heavy. They hurt me. I’m in pain So to all the handicap police out there, just be kind. You don’t need to know why someone’s parked in handicapped – and yeah, just be kind.
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media’s going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.
I am nice, yeah. I’m cool. But I’m no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they’ve done it when my eyes were closed, and it doesn’t happen twice.
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
They think that, if we were just smart enough, we’d be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell ’em, and I do tell ’em, Oh, we’re plenty smart, oh yeah – we know what’s goin’ on. And we don’t like what’s goin’ on. And we’re not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
It’s a juggernaut, yeah… but I’m not phased by making movies.
And I would go on all these college tours. And I was thinking about where I would want to go. And at the end of each tour, I’d be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you guys have any improv groups?’
Oh yeah – for sure – hardly a week doesn’t go by when I don’t hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.
I’m not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I’m not that guy. I don’t want people being like, ‘Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.’ It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
It’s just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don’t get upset over bad shots or anything like that.
Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there’s much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn’t. I don’t believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.
Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, ‘She’s got her daughter; she’s got her husband.’ Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else.
Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I’m in the middle of something and I can’t get it done, I’ll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.
The thing you can’t measure is someone’s heart, someone’s desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that’s something you can’t measure. That’s something you can’t measure about Rod Smith.
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
Yeah, I like to have fun – I think that’s a good way to live. I think you’re better at your job if you like it.
I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.
Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I’d try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
I have no trouble walking around. But every once in a while, somebody will come, during the course of the day, and say, ‘Oh, I recognize you from such-and-such,’ and yeah, they’ll make a connection. I think for the most part, people don’t go, ‘Where do I know him from? Does he work at the bank?’
Yeah, if someone’s selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they’re trading it I don’t mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
I’m from Connecticut, and we don’t have any dialects. Well, I don’t think we have any dialects, and yeah, it’s very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.
Yeah, you know I don’t ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.
