I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.