Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
I literally came to L.A. like every actor does from this little town with this big dream, and I'm living in it now. It's mind-blowing.
I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.
When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain.
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came.
'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
