Someone else's success is not your failure.

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

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

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.

I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.