Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Never be afraid to ask. The worst you'll get is 'No' but maybe you'll get a 'Yes'.

It is important to continue working toward creating the archetype of the self-rescuing princess, empowering girls through depictions of women in STEM.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.