You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.