I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words