You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Moving forward should always be your one and only option to abide by in all circumstances. We were born to continuously strive and thrive.

Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am alone and they are everyone, " I thought–and pondered.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That’s what's really cute to me.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.