I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. They said, 'You're a woman; enjoy yourself and believe that you can do things.'
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
When I got 'Trophy Wife', the first fear is, 'This could go away;' the second is, 'It's here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.'
But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
