Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.
I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist. ' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: "I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent. " That makes me just die inside.
I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.
We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.
Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.
Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.