“Anything that you [as an actor] can change about yourself for a part is helpful.” Quote by Michael Pitt
“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.” ShowsFilmCultureNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionHugePeriodsTwentiesMythologyBunchTelevision ShowsRoaringUnderworldRoaring Twenties Author:Martin Scorsese
“How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.” ThinkingUseDown AndJazzBackgroundsMake You ThinkBackground Music Author:Eddie Murphy
“My work was my life, and my life was my work, and there was a kind of blur between reality and what was being created.” KindRealityBlur Author:Mario Sorrenti
“I do sometimes lecture people about what they’re eating, but that’s only if they ask me.” PeopleIfsSometimesAsksEatingAsk MeLectures Author:Woody Harrelson
“During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.” LongStillsIdeasHandsPoliticalCitiesElectionExtraordinaryCorruptionPresidentialComplexityComing OutJerseyProhibitionNew JerseyPresidential ElectionNightclubsAtlantic City Author:Martin Scorsese
“When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.” LittlesCountryKidsWantedFilmCitiesNew YorkTelevisionKeysGlassesArtificialLittle KidMartiniKey To HappinessFilm And TelevisionArtificial LifePenthouses Author:Tom Ford
“I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part of me, and it comes out in the photograph. It's as if at that moment when I'm taking pictures, I'm not a man and I'm not a woman. If I see a moment that seems true to me, that seems honest, whether it's female or male, it's part of me as well.” IfsMenWellsMomentsSeemsSexHonestFemaleMalesPhotographSexualityThat MomentNot AfraidTaking Pictures Author:Mario Sorrenti
“I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.” DifferentKidsRememberFilmTypeGrainRemember WhenInkExaminingStreaks Author:Michael Pitt
“I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I feel like everything is going to happen then. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I'm always one of the first ones to say, "Let's try that."” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingFirstsI CanHappensRememberYoungWaitingSoundWowGetting OldPretentious Author:Mario Sorrenti
“I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenLuckKnow MeReactingMurphy Author:Eddie Murphy