It's interesting, isn't it?. . . the chandelier. . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.
The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.
Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.