When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

Most of us haven't begun to tap our own potential

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

In all things that you do, consider the end.