I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Your Prayer Life is a Reflection of your Relationship with God

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.