Adam Quotes

Madness has no sense of humour

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

My first car was a motorcycle.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.