I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

The sacred soul is full of God's spirit.

The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion.

Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.

There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.