Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad.