It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.

I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

O God if in the day of battle I forget Thee do not Thou forget me.

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

To let a fool kiss you is bad...To let a kiss fool you is worse. 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.