Some people shun the idea of role models but I think it's one of the most important things people have in life - role models, to look up to.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well.
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
I'm actually a pretty shy person in real life with new people.
I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.
Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.
I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
You can't sit on the sidelines of life.
As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.
I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.
I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful.
There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
