Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

I have been drumming my whole life.

People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering.