A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still doing my catering work. I told my director I had to miss rehearsal because I had to work a party. He was like, 'You're on TV. You need to get over that.'
The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.
Michael Sam will help us, and we'll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It's gonna be pretty cool.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
That's a lot of words about the weather, but in Canberra you can't help but be aware of the seasons, and there is something wonderful about that. Okay, so there's a distinct lack of beach, but aside from that, the place grows on you.
Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It's powerful for two reasons: you recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully.
Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.
You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'
The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.
You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.
Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.
We want people to be active so you'll be happier and be more yourself.
It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives, and you live in a semi-attached row house in Queens.
My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
I think boarding school does give you an independence.
I think it's a reasonable request to ask: if you're going to write a piece of regulation that affects Montana, I think you should know the difference between Butte and Bozeman.
If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.
When you age, you can do all kinds of roles. You don't have to look great. You can be the mom, the aunt. You can have a small part. You're an actor.
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.
I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.
When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.
