I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.

Words make love with one another.

If you looked in magazines ... you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

To strengthen our relationship with God, we need some meaningful time alone with Him

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.