It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.
I ask myself a lot of question about my work as an actress. We shall see. Plenty of friends tell me, 'Of course you must continue acting,' but I'm not sure.
I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.
After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.
I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.
I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work.
If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.
