When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way.

I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool.

I'm still waiting for somebody to wake me up.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are.

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.