Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.
I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.
I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.
When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.
It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television.
My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.
Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years, and who are willing to detach themselves from their tribal relations, should not be admitted to the benefit of the homestead act and the privileges of citizenship, and I recommend the passage of a law to that effect. It will be an act of justice as well as a measure of encouragement.
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.