Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be.
Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.
I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.
Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.
The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.
I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.
Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.
I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.
I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
I'd like to be remembered as somebody who persevered, who in many ways overcame, who recognized the importance of giving back, particularly to our youth, and as someone who tried to reach back and to catapult the next generation beyond him.
I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.
If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
We can always find creative ways to do things.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.
I'm working my way steadily back and I'm feeling good.
I don't feel like I was argued into the faith, but I feel like the evidence knocked down a succession of objections and issues and questions and doubts that I had, that sort of cleared the pathway for me to come to the faith.
There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.
This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?
We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.
It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.
