I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

I know that I sound like the joker, but the joker is a great character.

We Christians are bound hands and feet, sitting down in the pews instead of going out to explore the earth for the Son of God, king of kings and the Lord of Lords

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.

Some things were made to be felt

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.