Happe Quotes

"You know, it`s flattering when there`s a rumor that says I`m bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I`m open to whatever people want to call me. I`ve never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don`t think I would be afraid of it if it happened." (Details, December 2005)

I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn`t think it was ever going to happen again.

The time came for me to retire because of my rather unfortunate last movie . . . The cost to me in terms of frustration and avoiding going to jail for murder cannot have continued. Whenever I`ve tangled with a beautiful spy, have you noticed what invariably happens? Even if I know the girl is a nasty and dangerous little snake, I`ve still had to kiss her first and kill her later. (in 2004) The Scottish media all say, Oh yeah, he`s a tax exile". I have paid more tax than the government put together in that Parliament. I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

(Painkiller Jane centers on the title heroine, a young Marine officer who gains rapid self-healing powers after being exposed to a biochemical weapon.) They`re slightly different, yet the same, ... Jane doesn`t become a different person, necessarily, but things happen in her life that change her perspective on life in general, on who she is, and she starts to question a lot of things. So in her transformation into Painkiller Jane, she becomes a little more hardened and a little more skeptical of the world around her. I didn`t treat them as two entirely different characters, but there definitely is a shift that happens.

I`m not a practicing Catholic or I wouldn`t be living unwed with a woman, and I don`t think all poofs are going to hell, and I don`t think everyone who`s had an abortion is damned, most of my friends are atheists and I understand atheism, I get it, but I happen to be a theist. I believe in our answerableness to something else.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you`re going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

I know we built our career almost on being a positive influence on people. But the truth is, that`s not always the way I feel. And I`m tired of being afraid of what people are going to think if I don`t write that way. I want to write about what`s really happening in the world. And in me.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.