Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it.