What keeps me going is goals.
I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children]. . . but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way.
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you. She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.
I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.
The U. S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.
Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.