The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star, wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within, You belong with all.

With each sunrise we start anew.

The poor always ye have with you.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal