The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
I would have to say 'The Crucible' stands out because it was one of the best experiences I've ever had, but, you know, Arthur Miller being present on the set - which was wonderful and incredible - but, to have him in your eye line is quite intimidating. It's such a beautiful language he created, so that was challenging but exciting.
Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.
We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?
Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.
It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
I did 'The Vow' because I really love being in love.
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
There's nothing wrong with being comfortable in your own skin. If anything, it can be really beautiful.
Being on television is a little constraining. You spend six to eight months filming, and you get stuck in that gear. I feel like doing movies is a lot more my style.
I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
I like to be around people, so I ended up being roommates, right? I had a house. I lived with four guys.
I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.
I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.
You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
