My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies... It's so ridiculous.
Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.
Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.
I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.
Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.
I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.
