I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again. '
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.
I am desperate and vulnerable. . . . I am always terrified. . . . Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.
Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.
You know, the sad thing of post-911, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others. '
I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.