"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be."

"Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."

"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech."

"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."

"Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic."