"I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television."

“It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.”

Source : "'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

“Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.”

“You can call me Mama T anytime.”

Source : "Gay support for Kerry on display at convention" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

“The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.”

“Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler”

“We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?”

“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.”

“There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.”