Quotes About Variety

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

Risk takes on a lot of different forms, be it financial, the draft slot, something physical.

As an actor, I belong to a strange slot, where you may have all sorts of roles in your kitty.

I am equally capable of doing club songs, slow rock songs and any other kind as well.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

Every week in a small town is very different. Something is going on.

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

Whether it is 'Pyar Ke Side Effects,' 'Mithya,' 'Khosla Ka Ghosla,' 'No smoking,' all my films have been different from regular Bollywood movies.

When we're in the U.S., my kids instantly start snacking all the time. I don't know how it happens. There is just more food available all the time. There aren't all these little different varieties of snack foods in France.

I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.

Shoes? I have loved them all: '60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the '70s; more boots - ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos.

I have a room full of shoes: heels and sneakers and everything.

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

EAT MORE LIKE THE FRENCH. OR THE ITALIANS. OR THE JAPANESE. OR THE INDIANS. OR THE GREEKS.