I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.
I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.