Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.
I work hard and support myself.
When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.
If you are the writerdirector especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created it. So always listen to input but don't be afraid to veto and fight decisions that you know instinctively are wrong.
Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
I'm more motivated, and I'm just working harder every single day, so it shows in the music, and it shows in the fan base, it shows in all areas when you're bringing it like that.
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.