I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.
I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.
To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.
I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory.
Cute accessories always help bring out your outfit and pull it all together.
Sunglasses were my accessory of choice, and I always had an abundance of pairs.
I've always been somebody who would put together an outfit, and my go-to accessory would be a pair of sunglasses.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.
What I hate about Halle Berry is there's always drama around her. It's always fighting, automobile accidents, fistfights, boyfriends fighting ex-husbands for the child.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
