As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.
I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.
But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
Nothing is set up like a comedy bit. I did sitcoms for 10 years. Literally from 1989 to 1999. That's almost all I did. Whenever I got away from television I was like, "Phew, thank God that's over. I am never going back."
The Divorce isn't like the Da Vinci Code of TV shows. I'm not saying only a secret society is going to understand divorce. But it is a very specific show. And I don't know if you looked at a lot of the press. There's been some unpleasant reviews. And I'm not faulting those people but, they're really just not getting what we're trying to do. Which is to say, look. That may not be some people's taste. And that's fine.
I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.
The Divorce, it's just like any performance that's given where I really just completely lost myself in that life.
Principally, I'll give anything a chance, only because the greatest challenges are the ones that you never see coming.
Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.
I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.
I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.
I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.
I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music. I specifically remember lying on my different sisters' bedroom floors and listening to their record collections. And "Starship Trooper" was one of my sister Nancy's favorite songs and favorite album. Music is so defining for me. In the late '70s and early '80s, I worked in radio. When I was in high school, I worked at two different radio stations.
