We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Character actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Gandolfini have found themselves getting more and more leading roles because they are permitted… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I had heard a lot of stories about my father and celebrities, most of them from his own mouth. In his stories, famous women… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn what kind… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
