I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.
When you start searching for your name, you might be thrilled with what a lot of people say and it just takes one person. And it can hurt your feelings, but I have been aware of the fan bases and stuff like that and realize how deeply involved they are.
I've had moments in my life where it was all out on the table. Everything I had. I'm okay with that, because I had a strong belief that what I was doing other people could believe in it, too, if I can get it just right.
I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.
I'm a do-gooder liberal.