How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans
Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting
With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings. "
That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself
No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.
I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.