My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

What we really wanted to call it was 'I Rhoda Book.'

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get...

The 'Housewives' has helped me find my voice. I was always a people-pleaser, and coming into a show like this, you end up losing that.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

Being a father is just wonderful.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions...

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

Blame it on our short memories, the daily grind of the 24-hour-news cycle, or the endless barrage of information that comes at us on social media, but count me in the number of people who did not...

I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million...

The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.

I'm not your quintessential liberal.

I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

In L.A., I wasmeeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I...

I try not to pay attention to all the hype.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me...

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of...

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?