I've done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It's great for your mental health, and it's great for setting up a nice year.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

Nobody acts purely selfishly.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

I think listening to people is helpful.

It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".

Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.