We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

Worldly relationships are not true [are not real] it is a ‘business arrangement’.

Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?

Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.