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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.
There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.
When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.
My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.
I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi.
I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.
We drink and we die and continue to drink.
When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.
If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it`s the NHL`s fault
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."
Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.