Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Pain is temporary, film is forever.
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
