I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?