In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.

Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way.

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

There's nothing better than now.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.