Laurie Metcalf Quotes

I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are.

The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angeles after college.

I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

Teaching is what I've always done.

I spent the first 15 years of my career in Seattle.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

I don't do well when I don't work.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.