Quotes About Contrast

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

I didn't fit in on any level when I moved from Brooklyn to Burbank - on any level. And then I met a bunch of hippies, and I became a little hippie myself. A Brooklyn hippie.

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

Although I look really good holding a gun, I can't shoot. I can't shoot anything. I'm the worst shot.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Hopefully it doesn't come as too much of a shock that artists we love watching or listening to for an hour or two aren't always people with whom we otherwise would want to spend 20 minutes.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.

Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.

In 'Bodies,' we had a lot of gore because other medical dramas at the time had these hospitals where even a drop of blood seemed to be too much, which is clearly not what it's like when you cut someone up.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.

Even after premieres or events, some of the stars are like, 'Let's go out' and I just go back to the hotel room. I am the most boring person.

I like to eat in five-star hotels and also love street food.

I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.