Richard Hell's Quotes

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show.

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.