I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

Our hands will never be too small for helping those who are in need as long we have the heart to care.

There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

The new guys bring energy, intensity and emotion. The last couple games, they showed what they can bring to the team.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

The sign of death is weakness.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.