“I became an actor despite that. But with this look, who's going to think I'm gay? It would be hard to take me for someone like that. Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?”
Discussing the perception that many actors are gay in an interview with El Pais magazine, December 1991.
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American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter 1956Related quotes
Morrissey (1959) English singer
Source: [239, The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater, Claude Summers, Cleis Press Start, 1 November 2004, 9781573448758] In interviews etc., Sexuality
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“You know, I look like a duck. I just do. And I'm not the only person who thinks that.”
Michelle Pfeiffer (1958) American actress
People magazine (1990) http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20128142,00.html <br class="br">Context: You know, I look like a duck. I just do. And I'm not the only person who thinks that. It's the way my mouth sort of curls up or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
“There are heaps of things I would like to do, but there is no time to do them.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
Letter to Mrs. T. P. Hyatt (1895)
Context: There are heaps of things I would like to do, but there is no time to do them. The most gorgeous ideas float before the imagination, but time, money, and alas! inspiration to complete them do not arrive, and for any work to be really valuable we must have time to brood and dream a little over it, or else it is bloodless and does not draw forth the God light in those who read. I believe myself, that there is a great deal too much hasty writing in our magazines and pamphlets. No matter how kindly and well disposed we are when we write we cannot get rid of the essential conditions under which really good literature is produced, love for the art of expression in itself; a feeling for the music of sentences, so that they become mantrams, and the thought sings its way into the soul. To get this, one has to spend what seems a disproportionate time in dreaming over and making the art and workmanship as perfect as possible.
I could if I wanted, sit down and write steadily and without any soul; but my conscience would hurt me just as much as if I had stolen money or committed some immorality. To do even a ballad as long as The Dream of the Children, takes months of thought, not about the ballad itself, but to absorb the atmosphere, the special current connected with the subject. When this is done the poem shapes itself readily enough; but without the long, previous brooding it would be no good. So you see, from my slow habit of mind and limited time it is all I can do to place monthly, my copy in the hands of my editor when he comes with a pathetic face to me.
Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz (1964) Polish writer
Ziemkiewicz's essay at Interia Web Portal http://fakty.interia.pl/felietony/ziemkiewicz/news/pilnujcie-jezyka,767555
“I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham
Source: Green Eggs and Ham (1960)
Context: I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
Howard Stern (1954) American radio personality
Howard Stern on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN (January 18, 2011)
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born