Once you grow up life is like a washing machine. But one must always secretly have a Peter Pan mojo.
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
Don't come closer to me at any time without make-up. I may slap and make you feel the taste of death.
I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.
When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
If you Fail, Never Give Up because, F.A.I.L means "First Attempt In Learning".
Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.
Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.