I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.
If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.
I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.
I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance.
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.
I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends.
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.
I basically raised myself.
I know plenty people, and I've done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It's like watching a never-ending movie. It's great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week.
I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
I'm not one of the guys in the league for the fame. I'm here so I can take of my family, my mom, my friends and take care of myself.
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
