Quotes About Author

While I'm really proactive when it comes to managing my projects, I am a shy person.

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.

One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a Sicily that was already lost by the time Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was writing.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.

I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

The 'Test Kitchen' is really fun as long as you play your role, and I didnt like the role I was put in. It became increasingly frustrating to become a sidekick to people with significantly less experience than me.

In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.

Ray Sefo was a fighter and now he's a promoter and this is good. Ray Sefo knows two sides, this is amazing.

I love it in Udine, no doubt about it, but I am clearly pleased to read that other sides are interested in me.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

You fight for your character in the script. It's part of our job to evolve them, show all sides of them.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.