When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways – in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it’s an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that’s going to be the solution to all the pressure.
The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it’s a mess.
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
I’m a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you’re privileged, that increases your responsibility.
When I tell people I’m a comedian they say, ‘Oh, are you funny?’ I say, ‘No, it’s not that kind of comedy.’
Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
I feel my family’s needs are a priority. I’m not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.
You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don’t think there’s a right or a wrong; I think there’s an “it works” or “it doesn’t work” for the whole. And that’s why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.
Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it’s been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it’s a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.
The only time I’ve really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven’t been with my kids.
I’m kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.
Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential...
My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard – children and women at risk.
When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world’s children and women stand – no – shiver on the precipice.
To each person, their own way of death – with dignity.