Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.
The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
