Quotes About Contrast

'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

My arms are like twigs.

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music you just want to sit still. Like Claude Debussy - I couldn't dance to that.

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

Whereas Angeline's antics made me want to pull out my hair sometimes, Trey found them endearing.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.