I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

I can say that I am, by nature, optimistic.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

Angriness is one the powerful weapon to stand up again.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

One cannot go over Niagara Falls in a barrel only slightly.

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.