When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

For when the mind becomes bound to a passion of the wandering senses, this passion carries away man's wisdom, even as the wind drives a vessel on the waves.

Skin color doesn't make you different, ' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that, ' Raymon replied, 'are white.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.