Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another connected to a leader and connected to an idea. For millions of years human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe a shared interest and a way to communicate.

The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure.

If say 90 of Christian marriages were intact people would be writing about it.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.

I love 'Fishing With John' so much.

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don't like to be hassled.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.