Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.
Geena Davis
Recitation: by Male by Female
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
Jens Lekman
HumorWritingYouSense Of Humor
My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.
John Lloyd Young
MotherGreatEmpathyPeopleFeel
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.
Robert Glasper
TimeChanceJazzMoreGoingNerd
The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.
Jeff Nichols
FunnyMarriageTimeCommitmentMe
There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
Stephen Vincent Benet
BlessingsTrueProveTrialsBear
I'm good at disguising my feelings.
Michelle Pfeiffer
GoodFeelings
I don't like to compare players, particularly to myself.
Luka Modric
MyselfPlayersLikeCompare
Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.
Lobsang Tenzin
ReligionSearchPhilosophyHuman
I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.
Aubrie Sellers
MusicPeopleThinkDifferent People
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
William Westmoreland
ClearEffectRunningVeryOperation
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
Norton Juster
ThinkYouKnowWayMeanSomething
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
Martin Bashir
OpportunityAchievementFairExplain
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