Indulgent Quotes

"It`s not an indulgent type of performance when I play live, but there is a lot of passionate guitar playing involved, and it`s as equally predominant as the singing and performing - if not just a little bit more so. It`s definitely a focus of the show ... and we do have a tendency to play longer than we`re supposed to! Once we get into the groove, we`re kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don`t stop!"

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

I am pretty self-indulgent.

With big, emotional roles it`s very easy, especially if you`ve grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It`s easy to become indulgent. For me, what`s important is the story first.

Acting and music are self indulgent professions and they are a luxury unless you love what you do. I have a love/hate relationship with what I do. I think, `Where`s the relevance of this? I`m not a doctor, I`m not an aid worker.` But then I think you only have one life and I am a vessel for stories to be told.

Don`t you find it kind of self-indulgent for actors to go around writing parts for themselves?

People who work in television often don`t think they can trust film makers because they are supposed to be a bit more arty and self indulgent, and people in film might think anyone who works in television is a hack. If we had more filmmakers working in television, and more television writers and directors working in film, we`d have a much healthier and more vital industry.

It`s an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don`t better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don`t know where to look, and that`s what I consider self-indulgent.

Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.