I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

I am the master of my destiny.

Suppress anger and the world will be good for you, suppress more anger and the world will be better with you. Suppress all your anger and then you will not be okay with this world.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

To think is to destroy.

Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.

Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves the spring must also love its reason!