I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.
I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
What once made you safe now drives you insane.
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 911 that he was coming after the U. S. ? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.
I remember running into Aaron's Sorkin office and going "The show's West Wing going to work! I know it's going to work!" And it was literally that moment: the energy, the place, the feel. I didn't know the show would be successful but I thought it was going to be good and I don't have that feeling very often. And we were rehearsing all of that not knowing who the President of the United States was!
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.