To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Don't always cherish a past memory, Do something today, that you will never forget !!

A person archives self-realization by engaging in deliberate contemplative acts that serve to unify of all aspects of the self. To deny part of the self, a person risks spiritual decay.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

When you are tiny like me and it's hard to find clothes that fit you get really creative! I do love fashion though, and it's so fun to play with different things.

John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'