The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.
I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.
I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.
I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.
I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.
I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life. . . I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.