To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.
When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.
I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.
I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.
I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'
I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
