To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

The miss steps are the mistakes you must make.

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.