It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.
I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.
I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.
I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.
I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?
I need someone like me.
Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?
I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.
Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.
I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.
There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are 'You're a great actor, good work,' and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say 'You were awesome on 'The West Wing,'' 'Loved 'In Her Shoes,' great movie,' ''What Women Want,' good job dude.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.
When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.
My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.
I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
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