I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.
My first vocation was dance.
The best part of my career has been the relationships with the fans and the kids.
I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
Work was always a part of my life.
There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.
I'm still working for the government.
I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.
My advice to young women who are looking to be successful; make sure you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing. And make sure you're fulfilled by the opportunities within your job.
I've spent my entire career being a satirist.
I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
I got a few laughs and decided I was going to act.
I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.
I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.
I had a great job with the Knicks.
I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.
I've turned the annoying questions that white people ask into a career, so I understand that's where I live.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
I had flops, I had success.
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
