I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

Real choices – the ones that changed you and shaped you – were never made with the head, but on the beat of a heart that saw a future it couldn't live without.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.