- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consistency for me is everything.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
- Nov 07, 2020
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn't like it - it made me uncomfortable - so I just quit. And then I was trying to figure out what to do and was worthless at everything, so I was like, 'All right, I'll try acting again.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020