There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
I never planned on being a plumber.
I liked being in the spotlight.
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.