When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.