'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it.

They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.