The birth of any show is always a rough one.
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.
Any obsession is dangerous.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan]. And because I felt safe, Sam[L. Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.
Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.
We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to fury. How dare she love him? Hadn't she any sense at all? What was he supposed to do about that? Return it? How? What could his calloused hands produce to make her smile? What of his knowledge of the world and of life could be useful to her? What could his heavy arms and befuddled brain accomplish that would earn him his own respect, that would in turn allow him to accept her love?
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".