"You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you."

"Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters."

"I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'"

"As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age."

"I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea."

"I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing."

"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."