I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.
I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.
Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.
I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot. "
In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.
I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.
. . . the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?