I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.
You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.
Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.
I chose to love you because my heart wasn’t giving me any other option
The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
