You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.