Nonfiction is more personal for me. It’s more personal in that it’s more direct, and actually it’s always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. – Joan Didion
I’d drop whatever I was doing to show up to do the graveyard shift of ‘America’s Shopping Place.’ – Jane Lynch
In ‘Zombieland,’ it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn’t matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter. – Jesse Eisenberg
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense. – James Surowiecki
Also, as I’ve gotten older and more mature, I’ve become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that’s reflected onstage. – Janeane Garofalo
I’ve never worked as much as I would’ve wanted to, and that’s why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal. – Holly Hunter
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don’t think anyone out there believes that we’re going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business. – James Daly
I do what I do because I like doing it. I’m well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it’s worth. – Jeremy Irons
Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it. – Joel Osteen
I was sent the script for ‘Silver Linings’ when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said ‘Oh, boy am I!’ – Jacki Weaver
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. – Ira Glass
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. – John Mayer
Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way. – Julie Burchill
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can’t be objective. – Joe Nichols
Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, ‘You don’t have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin’ look like jerkin.’ – Ice Cube
You can’t ignore mobile. We are doing a lot of stuff in the game space, mostly nonconsole stuff, and those are primarily mobile/pad games. – Jon Feltheimer
Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most. – Judah Friedlander
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. – Julia Cameron
I’ve done some stinkers in the cinema. You can’t regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it’s just the location. – John Hurt
When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times. – Illeana Douglas