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" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "

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" My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. "

" My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls. "

" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "

" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "

" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "

" Everybody's family has problems. "

" I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! "

" I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house. "

" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "

" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "

" Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite. "

" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "

" I have a very well organized closet. "

" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "

" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "

" I like complicated characters. "

" You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

" There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. "

" I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

" I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me. "

" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "

" 'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. "

" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "

" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "

" Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box. "

" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "

" I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. "

" I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "

" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "