[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]MARLEEN WALKER: “Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building.”TIZIANO CONTI: “Am I breaking the law right now?

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic.

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Everything that is not given is lost.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."