Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Worry? That's a strange thing to say. There's no way anyone would be worried about me. Besides, we're all gonna be enemies eventually.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

[Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.