I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

Why . . . would a penguin be in a piss pot?

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?).

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.