First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.
I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.
Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.
There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
Of course it worries you as an actress to stay away from projects. I was approached for many TV soaps as well as reality shows. But, to stay away from work was my decision, and I'd glad to be part of such an interesting and unique concept like 'Ghar Jamai.' I am happy that I am playing a role that is so relatable.
Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.
Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.
I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished... but I'm not going there... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.
Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?
When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
After the smoke clears, I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here. I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.
Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.
If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
