It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.
I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.
I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.
Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.
You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.
Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.
