I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.
There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.
