It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

True love happened rarely and standing in the brink of one, it would in all certainty be an act of cowardice to retreat without letting her know his desire.

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

In Beverly Hills, the higher you climb, the farther you fall.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

No paradox, no progress.

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.