The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

Basic training is horrible. It's dirty, and it's ugly. But you learn it's not just about you. It makes you part of a team, which helps you to survive.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.