Quotes About Relevance

The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead... That's a very scary moment.

If you are true at telling the story, it will get a good audience, and the required numbers.

Cameos are good only if we have actors do it as per the requirement of the script otherwise no point just having someone for the heck of it.

We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.

My residents don't know who a federal officer is or a local police officer or a county deputy or a state patroller. They don't know, and they don't care. It's all the same to them.

McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

You've got to be very conscious of what people see. If I saw somebody every day, I would get sick of them. Most guys think, 'If I can get on TV every day and give that quote, I'm going to be golden.' It's not about that. It's about showing people you can be yourself.

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

About this sport, you gotta kind of stay active. If you're not active, you're easily forgotten. It's like out of sight, out of mind.

In fashion, out of sight is out of mind.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them.

I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

Whether they're paying for it or not is not really relevant. They're investing a significant amount of time in our content. At some point, commercial opportunities will materialise for greater percentages of that audience.

I have always tried to play significant characters and have never done cheap comedy.

The majority of the time... the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they're making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn't want me around, then just don't talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.