George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart businesswoman.
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.
I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
My mother taught us all to bake. It literally calmed us down, and she was able to get rid of all her frustrations.
I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.
Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.
The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.
