The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

Travelling allows you to see the world as it is.And that's beautiful.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.