At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice.

What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.