And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

I'm not a person of mentors.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

'Style Strategy' is about shopping smart, staying chic and making it all last. It's about showing women how to shop for value without compromising style.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word NO.

May you find grace to overcome self-doubt.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.