I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
I like Aveda shampoo. I've used it since I was a swimmer.
Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.
No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.
It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts.
A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
I've had tattoos since I was like 16, but if you would have asked the younger me to get a tattoo that symbolized my sexuality, I would have told you no, because that's how not okay I used to be with it.
There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.
Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
