I had never been to second base.
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.
I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is. ' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!. ' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.