Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.
I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.
There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!
I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.
After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.
I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.
The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.
Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Henry Frankenstein: Quite a good scene, isn't it? One man, crazy - three very sane spectators!
Janine Melnitz: I've quit better jobs than this. [answers phone] Janine Melnitz: Ghostbusters, what do you want?
Cornelius Fudge: Now write your name only. Dumbledore: It's quite a long name.
