My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism if I myself and other former Muslims can change if young whites can change then there is hope for America.
If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So my sensibilities are changing as I change.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Al Gore the former vice-president of the United States lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13 sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager rather than as a present parent.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
All the best performers bring to their role something more something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter simplicity to the former.
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet as well as one of the wealthiest but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah fashion merchandising adoption melodramas the gym and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being the former has made us men.
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.