Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Concentrate, don't embroider.

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

Acting to me is always reacting.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

I can't deal with the gym too much if I don't have somebody telling me what to do.

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

Determination is the wake up call to the human will.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Because I have moderated two general election debates - in 2004 and 2008 - I know better than to carp from the sidelines. I am confident in my accomplishment of having had Queen Latifah portray me on 'Saturday Night Live' both years.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

I've been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.

I have a relatively good track record.

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.