Happy Birthday Dirk Benedict!

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Life: my favorite occupation.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.