I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

We got almost the entire team coming back; we only had two seniors last year. We plan not just on making it back, but on taking the next step.

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.