I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.
It's a quiet life. Normally it's training, house, gym.
Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house.
When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'
I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.
I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, theyβre up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.
I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.
For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home.
I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.' Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
