I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
I don't really have a theatre background at all.
I came up from a difficult background.
We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.
I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.
There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.
I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.
I've got pride in my profession and I want to be judged on my ability, not my background.
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.