Clay Matthews III Quotes

When I was working with Reebok, Paul Fineman sent me to see David Stern to try to explain to him, basically, the tanning of America: That all rappers wanted to be basketball players and basketball players wanted to be rappers.

I find the working pattern to be the same in Bollywood as well as Tollywood. Especially because most directors of photography from the Telugu industry operate in Bollywood, too.

Our artistes should be allowed to go to Pakistan just as we welcome their artistes.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

Like 'Lost in Translation,' I worked on an advertisement where a Hollywood star was doing a commercial just for Japan. The star was Hugh Jackman. Since I'm Australian, they just assumed I knew him, and I didn't correct them.

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

In the entertainment industry, especially, is a total different environment then working in a corporate setting.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.