Adam Quotes

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

The only place I want to travel to is the United States Of America from 2008 to 2016. Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.

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

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.

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

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!

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

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.

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.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.