I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I just became one with my browser software.

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Rise above principle and do what is right.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.