Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
There are certain people who aren't with me any more, but they're with me in spirit. I just want to do them proud and live up to expectations that they had.
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
It's so rare, actors who are not vain.
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.
It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.
If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.
At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.
The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
