I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.