Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.
Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.
Keeping an open mind is always important.
I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It was a great visit and I do a whole-behind-the-scenes thing and I tell stories about Bette [Mudler] and Barbara Hershey and everybody and that was fun. It made me cry again.
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.
Anger and anger can not solve any problem.