There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.
I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.
My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives.
I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.
I was 36 when I got married. I was so focused on, 'You wanted a husband, and you wanted a house, and you wanted children.' I've had all those things now.
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ (The White House, July 25, 1961)]
