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

One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

I definitely believe in a higher power.