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Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh. ”
To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true. ”
Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium. ”
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not. ”
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. ”
Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever. ”
There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community. ”
Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing. ”
You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie. ”
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did. ”