In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.

I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.