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

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

Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists

I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.