When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that. ↗
You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different. ↗
I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. ↗
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. ↗
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera. ↗