We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.
L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.
We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.
I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.
My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.
Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
When I'm not at work, I put deep conditioner in my hair and wear a baseball cap. I'll just roll around on the off-days with goop in my hair, and then just rinse it out.
I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
