There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Life is like a camera... Focus on what's important capture the good times and develop from the negative.

You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.

The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if you're rude to somebody in prison, you get killed.

Times change; years speed by; but Christmas continues sacred.