In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.