Charlie Kaufman
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BURROUGHS MATISYAHU AARON SORKIN WHIT STILLMAN Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people hav... MARIO BALOTELLI I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to im... IAN ZIERING I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kin... NASTIA LIUKIN MARILYN MANSON You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from... DAN AUERBACH ADAM SANDLER I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm... MARK STRONG Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I'm doing a lot of rapping, but I... ANDERSON PAAK When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I... ADAM HASNER GERI HALLIWELL KATY PERRY I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how ... LUPITA NYONG'O I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not say... IDRIS ELBA When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, b... CARLENE CARTER MARILYN MONROE LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON LEE KUAN YEW TANITH LEE KATRINA KAIF Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I... PHILLIP PHILLIPS TIMOTHY SIMONS As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and mo... ALISON LOHMAN When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.... LINDA SUE PARK I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energ... DOUG E. FRESH CHARLIE KAUFMAN ELISABETH SHUE I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep. ELIZABETH GEORGE ELIZABETH WURTZEL DAVID O. RUSSELL I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It... EDGAR RAMIREZ I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that'... BILL KREUTZMANN When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e... TAYARI JONES FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drummi... TREVOR ST. JOHN I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm goin... KAREN ALLEN I don't know about the hair. I've had it since I was a kid, and when I look at myself in the... ERIK HASSLE JOHN LYDON Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymor... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN DAVID LISS Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a ga... BEN FELDMAN I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who thi... PARMINDER NAGRA KATY PERRY CLIVE BARKER JACKIE EVANCHO SAM ROCKWELL PAUL SIMON At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical a... AUDRINA PATRIDGE YOGI BERRA GILLIAN JACOBS ELVIS PRESLEY I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor.... SPALDING GRAY ROXANE GAY I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. ... TAWNI O'DELL DREW BARRYMORE If people recognize me from 'The Vampire Diaries,' they just give me that look that's li... CASSIDY FREEMAN I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense ... EDGAR MEYER TARYN MANNING ELMORE LEONARD At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. ... GAVIN O'CONNOR KID CUDI It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT GARY VAYNERCHUK I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of... CANDIS CAYNE CARRIE UNDERWOOD It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel... KYRA SEDGWICK LISA EDELSTEIN KIP MOORE CHRISTINA AGUILERA EMILIA FOX LAUREN HOLLY BROOKE SHIELDS AMY GRANT
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I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi... 
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... 
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When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience... 
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The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hea... 
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I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o... 
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Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
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