My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

Being in rehab it's no fun. But afterwards it's like the best thing ever. I didn't want to leave.

Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.