Quotes About Contrast

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Although there was considerable turbulence, even in the 1950s, it did not throw a shadow on my consciousness.

At home, Mom served us turkey breakfast links that she got at the health-food store. But whenever we went out for breakfast, she let my brothers and me order pork sausages (though, inexplicably, not bacon).

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Buying my new house in the country wasn't about showing off or being something I'm not, like Madonna when she turned into the country lass with her tweeds on.

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.

I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.

For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

Producing a dark Christmas album in the middle of the summer is a very interesting process, especially if you are doing it by the turquoise Caribbean Sea.

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.

I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.