I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

Humility is what we want other people to have.

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.