You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.