I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.
If you know how to open doors with just a smile, you must need your teeth capped every six months
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6" to 6'1" in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1". Everyone was freaking out.
I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!
Knox: Lieutenant, is there a six-foot bat in Gotham City? And if so, is he on the police payroll? And if so, what's he pulling down... after taxes?
Chuck Noland: First thing it's two minutes, then four, then six, then the next thing you know, we're the U.S. mail.
I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
