Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential. ' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference. . . With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience. . . A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
I was lucky, because Ewan McGregor had already been shooting with Roman Polanski for about a month before I got role. And he did a faultless impersonation of what it was going to be like. So when direction happened, it was like, "Oh yeah. That's what Ewan said was going to happen. " And so it was a little bit less debilitating than it might have been.