It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
I do my own way of witnessing. Not by verbally intimidating people but just by my actions.
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.
I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!
When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically to create my own character. I didn't want him to think I was hanging out with him solely to use him as research.
