My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.
For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'
In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.
One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That's not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.
The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.
There is such a thing as bad publicity.
There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
'Belko Experiment' was the harshest, most extreme movie I ever made. But I still think there's a very cohesive center to it that wasn't always in my early films. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I think it's a commercial thing.
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?
The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.
I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.
Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
