If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.
New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.
Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
To be honest, I kind of dress like a 15-year-old boy. And I probably live like a 15-year-old boy, too.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.
We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
