By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.