I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform

Life's messy, " he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.