The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.
I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
You need to get in touch with your body. . . do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.
I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or dealt with classical stuff, or brought the flute or just dealt with comp and arranging. . . what a great teacher.
Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded.