W. J. Bryan Quotes

I really like natural, warm finishes. I like any of the natural stones, the oiled wood that is kind of a pre-finished flooring. I'm very tactile.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life.

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.

It depends on the project, what's happening that day on the project, at what stage were in on the project; it various from project to project and where we're needed.

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.

And more importantly what we found with those people is that a lot of them said, "Hey it's not what I thought it was going to be." Which is a great reaction, particularly if they liked it.

Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

My parents were really nice to me.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

My life was very Japanese.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

I have a black lab named Luke.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.