I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.