The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

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

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.