At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.
When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.
I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.
I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!
Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
The first year of the Boot Ride was an amazing experience. Seeing people come out from all over, ride and, most importantly, put on their boots, was an inspiration.
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
