Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please—let it be him.
Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people. . . that's pretty wild.
I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
What he said was: "You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere. " And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
Another show I really enjoyed working on was Raising The Bar. I did four or five episodes of that show.
The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look, I miss you darlin', so I went out and got drunk in this bar. ' That's the way you say it. Where in Tin Pan Alley they would say, 'Oh I missed you darling, so I went to this restaurant and I sat down and had a dinner for one. ' That's cleaned up now, you see? But country and blues tells it like it is.
I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that's pretty sweet.
While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life. . . but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.
Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.
After seeing Avatar the movie, you see how far it can go to be right. But you kind of see that and go, "Oh, there's the bar now, and how close can we get?"