I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.
You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.
I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
