I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when no one's around.

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.