“I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.”
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“I definitely consider myself a Method actor, because of my training. I might dispute what people consider a Method actor to be. For my money, a Method actor is an actor who has a technique. That has a method. And not one method, but whatever might be required. So a Method actor is always learning.”
“I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director, or actor-director. Writers, directors, actors are all such very different people. I think it's unusual that two of those people are in one human.”
“The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.”
“All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.”
“Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]”
“Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.”
“My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.”
“Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.”
“In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.”
“Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.”
“If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!”
“It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.”
“The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.”
“People have to make their own decisions about their lives.”
“To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.”
“Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.”
“When you inherit a segment that people grew up with, they are like, "This is not what I'm used to." It's hard. There's a period where you're trying to do what people are used to and fulfill what they miss. After a while you just have got to shake it off and be yourself.”
“I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.”
“People used to say, "Oh, I like SNL show, it's funny." And this 2017 season, people were saying, "Oh, I love the show, I needed it, thank you." It started towards the end of last year, when the Primary started to heat up. I remember in the summertime people were excited for it, talking about SNL in July and August.”