It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

My parents lie somewhere beneath the snow, buried with my mortal life.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.