Quotes

You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth!

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

If every gay person were to come out only to his/her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days the entire state would discover that we are not the stereotypes generally assumed.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative: Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

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

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.

I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.

The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

After Notre Dame, what is there?

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.