There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.
My acting gives me my self-worth
Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations. "
I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very. . . high maintenance.
I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.