When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.
You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.