Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

I'm not a politician.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.

She was fury she was wrath she was vengeance.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

The review I've been most offended by came when I played Hamlet. I'd always prided myself on being an 'invisible actor' and not getting in the way of the play. But this review didn't mention me once. That's worse than being insulted.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.