I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

When doctors tell you that your only hope for survival is 14 straight days of intense chemotherapy, 24 hours a day, you sit there, and you count down the 336 hours. You see, each day is a blessing.

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what were talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

I'm easy to hate.

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.

In America everyone's fast.

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.