I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
Quickly you learn it's way better to have fans talking and caring about you than not.
My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.
America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.
I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.
It's part of my responsibility, as an actor who has been lucky enough to have this job, to take my job very seriously, show up on time, know my lines, and give the best performance that I can because I'm doing something that so many other people work very hard to have and never get.
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.