In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.
You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.
TV is a much more female-friendly environment.
Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.
What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. . . . He burns, too, the purest of oil. . . . It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.
Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.