American Quotes

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.