You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!
And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
There are moments when you're stepping out of a really nice car on to a red carpet, and you feel inside like, 'This is quite nice,' but I'm never whisked off my feet.
So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
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.
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.
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.