The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I like talking. I like acting.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‚mince about‘ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I can’t act!