One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

i don't care about you dark secret all i want is you and its for a good reason

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.

Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.