I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.
If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.
One thing about a film production is that it must run efficiently; there is no room for dead wood. So somebody that hangs around by the coffee wagon won't get hired again, but somebody who is dedicated and works hard and really puts out will get noticed by the people that matter around there and will get asked to come back again.
It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.
We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.
I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.
'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.
I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
One thing you cannot control is nature.
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.
Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
