Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world.
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no. "
Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does. ' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.
There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one