Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

To be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

I think that one of the beautiful things about theatre - and a place like 'Powerhouse' - is that who you are is informing your work. There's actually no separation from that.

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'