"When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them."

"Wisdom principle 72 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 79."

"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."

"Wisdom principle 71 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 17."

"The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane."