I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

Fight for the things that matter to you. Inspire yourself. Believe in the power of positive thinking.

Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened ..

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Death is the road to awe.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

We do not have a debt crisis right now, but we see it coming. We know it's irrefutably happening. And the point we're trying to make with our budget is let's get ahead of this problem.

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.