"And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first."

“Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.”

“I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.”

“I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.”

Source : "Live Chat: Congressman J.C. Watts". The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

“I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just praying to God it worked, because we weren't even finished. I was just hoping it worked, so half of it was just, "Phew."”

“No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!”

“The main thing that God asks for is our attention.”

“He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.”

Source : "Music fans celebrate Gershwin's many contributions". www.cnn.com. September 25, 1998.