I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!
I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.
I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
