To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.

To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.