For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'
Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.
Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.
Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.
The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
