The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.
I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'
When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.
In daytime, you're shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very hectic. On '90210,' you get to work through it a little more. You're not just flying through it just to get it done.
The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.
In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.
There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.
Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.
IF the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.
Choose your inn before dark, get back on the road before dawn.
It never rains on your neighbors without you getting your feet wet.
Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
He who eats cherries with gentlemen risks getting the pips in his nose.
When you go to bed with a clear head, you will not get up with a headache.
If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.
As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
