American Quotes

We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more.

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.