Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

Size zero doesn't make you happy, and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

Years end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I have a confession to make - I truly love country music.

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Maybe there is a beast. Maybe its only us.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

An actor has to embody a role.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

Whether shes casual or red carpet shes put together.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.