For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
“For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.”
— Pete Hamill · Chair
The World Motivation
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
“For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.”
— Pete Hamill · Chair
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.
My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.
Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In 'Oopiri,' it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.
There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
Within comedy, macabre is the root, and a lot of art - Goya, Bosch, Dali - is macabre. Even Van Gogh, if he paints a chair, there's an element of the macabre within it.
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
My 91-year-old great-grandma would get out of her chair and whip me if I start acting like I'm some star or something like that.