Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.
Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.
Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying. . . I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.
My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal. . . . The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.
Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.
When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you. " Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me.
The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.