The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.
A lot of what acting is is paying attention.
San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.
You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress. " I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.
I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.
. . . from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
You know that girl that always forgave you? That always loved you? That always took you back? Pretty soon, she’ll give up and find someone better.