We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.