America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.
When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.
I often say that buying 'Heavy Rain' is a political act.
When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
