When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

I like who I am when I'm with her. And I hope that she feels the same way. If she doesn't, we shouldn't be together, no matter how I feel about it.

Character determines fate.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]

I felt that with each movie, Gary [Ross] adopts a different style. He doesn't have one look that's the Gary Ross look, and I thought that was important.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.