My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.
Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?
I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.
George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.
One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
