What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

I was born a poor black child.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.