The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

Movement isn't progress.

Turmoil stimulates.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

Clarity affords focus.

Integrity reveals beauty.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

Ego is good.

The sky isn't falling.

Balance is overrated.

Bigness is better.

Rise above yourself.

Don't be drab.

Coaching doesnt make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra ordinary.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

California is full of homesick people.

when we give cheerfully and accept gratefully everyone is blessed.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

To appreciate the best opportunity for attack and defence, you must fully understand the rhythm of movement.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

No person is just one particular emotion.

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.

Make today worth remembering.

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical.

Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.