With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.