Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.
My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.
