Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

I dont mind dying if I have to but Im damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. Im sorry.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

I think I have made a difference. I have meant a lot to my people. I have done well. They are proud of me. And that was the main focus. I was doing it for my people, the people who support me.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

I think it's important to change and not be associated with your character too much.

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.

I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.

I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in a while when I'm with my nieces and actually be attentive.

All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't.

I don't accept the Zionist idea.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

Just as you are obligated to speak when your words will be heeded, you must remain silent when you know your words will be ignored.

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?'

I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.'

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.