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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.