I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!
Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.
I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at - just walking around Williamsburg, for example - is a great opportunity for ideas. I've been here before, I've seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they've attached a light to a house.
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time.
The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work. ' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it. '
What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.
If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.
(. . . ) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman would not have been so maimed, and neither would the world, (. . . )