Quotes About Author

If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read.

I went into NXT with no expectations. That's what I was told when I was hired - have no expectations, just do the best I could - and that's always what I've done for the last fifteen years. That's what I did, and you know, it's obviously working out pretty good.

I'd say my heart is more in independents, but sometimes these major films come along that are pretty good, you know?

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

I don't think it would be fair for Tessa to do 'Dancing With The Stars.'

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

It's a scary moment when you're on a football pitch and realize that your life is in danger - it was a one in a million kind of thing.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

When we make these movies, you sign up for an experience. It's not just, 'Action! Cut!' There's not that safety in it. It's kind of a dangerous place to be. I mean, it is safe, but it gets personal. It's no longer about saying the lines. It's about really having an experience.

We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.

One of the dangers of male emotionality is that theyre not aware of it churning away beneath them the whole time.

Yeah, the first television match that I'm going to have, I got put out there with Danny Hodge and I was scared to death.

That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.

Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do something funny.

I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

I literally have a massive database of cat sounds.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.