I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.
It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.
I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.
I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.
When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.
By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.
I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.
My back is permanently messed up.
There's something messed up with my brain.
Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.
I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.
I hate being up onstage with a microphone.
