Cliched Quotes

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost clichéd Robin Askwith thing. People have always said, are you gay? I`ve had a lot of that. But it`s just not in me. I really like women a lot; I`m repulsed by men sexually.

The outing really was quite a freeing experience. I know that sounds sort of clichéd, but it really was very liberating. That one thing, that one big secret is out. For a lot of people, it was just a confirmation of what they thought about me. I mean, I look like the girl next door, but I was always kind of off-center.

Even though it`s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it`s still effective and it still has to be done.

Being successful doesn`t change things. There`s a painful, lonely part of acting because you`re always waiting. The thing about being a performer is doing, and when you have to wait, it`s the same pain as when you`re starting out and have no job. You think that thing will go away, but it doesn`t. It just shifts. I remember Robert Duvall saying that being a successful actor is all about finding interesting hobbies, because if you don`t have the right hobby, you die. It`s very hard to maintain interest. Most actors don`t. They become a little clichéd. You learn how to do tricks and stuff.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It`s kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

It`s very cliched to go, `You`re not punk.` We don`t care if we are, and we don`t care if we aren`t.

I don`t feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn`t do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Every child that I`ve worked with so far has been so professional and not at all the kind of difficult, cliched stories that you would hear.

I just want to do everything. I don`t want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that`s the way it is.

To me, being cool is just the opposite of living. It`s about not getting too worked up about anything, by being `Nyah, nyah, nyah,` and no big deal. I can`t stand that. It`s such a jaded, clichéd posture to take. I get real enthusiastic about stuff. It`s what I think is life-affirming.

I like the feeling that I`m giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

I`m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it`s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can`t be this way.