Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.