What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

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.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

We are the sum of the Father's love for us

All I can tell everybody is, I'm the same guy, just on a different team.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.