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 have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to express my talent on screen in a certain way. I felt that it made me a little different.

If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.

I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

No matter how you feel... get up, dress up, show up and Never Give Up!