I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

I love to sing, and I love to talk to people at meet-and-greets.

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.