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When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt. ”
In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it. ”
If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star. ”
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice. ”
Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways. ”
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. ”
I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances. ”
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all. ”
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. ”
Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course. ”