There are no crown princes at Ford.

There are no crown princes at Ford.

I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

Retirees who are on Medicare will suffer the consequences of 700 billions of Medicare dollars instead being used to cover the skyrocketing cost of Obamacare. In essence, less dollars for seniors means less service. Not fair. The Boomers are going to take the 'hit.' In Obamacare, 'too old' has limitations of service.

You make the road by walking.

The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few months earlier. You will have survived an entire year without someone who was as important to you as life itself.

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

If you feel depressed you shouldnt go out on the street because it will show on your face and youll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

I prefer eating to cooking.

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.

Be candid with everyone.

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.