Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.
I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.
Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.
I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
Carol Kane is just as warm as you would think she is, and she is so smart and really a living legend and has so much to offer.
Everybody wants to say that Kentucky fans are vicious or obnoxious. They're not. They're crazy in that they watch the tape of our games more than I do. But they're passionate and smart.
I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
