I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in piles on my desk, they stack behind me on my shelves, they surprise me every time I look for one and find ten more I had forgotten about. I love their covers, their weight and their substance. And like the child I was, with the key to the world that reading gave me, it is still exciting for me to find a new book, open it at the first page and plunge in, head first, heart deep.
It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
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