First you have to have a dream.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.