The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?” Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.“More like frenemies with benefits.

I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.