I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.
When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
Paul Rivers: There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.
[from trailer] Paul Rivers: They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?
[holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Paul Rivers: Ah. The culprit.
Paul: Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She's real.
[after Smecker proves the Boston detectives wrong] Paul Smecker: We'll start the ass-kissing with you.
Paul Smecker: So Duffy, you got any theories to go with that... tie?
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.
