I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

I am not an atheist preacher. I am not an absolutist or chauvinist whose ways are immune to evolution. My core philosophy is that I might be wrong.

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

We must strive to be like the moon

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.