You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.
Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make hime great in the eyes of others.
Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.
Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.
You freaking bit me," I said, my voice hoarse. "You're lucky I don't call animal control.
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
