I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

I actually believe he is the new Cilla Black.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.