Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.