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" My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. "

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" I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. "

" I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. "

" I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education. "

" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "

" Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. "

" I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "

" I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy. "

" As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me. "

" The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. "

" The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. "

" I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested. "

" Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. "

" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

" Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. "

" Pity is a benign form of abuse. "

" Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. "

" I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. "

" I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name. "

" I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time. "

" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "

" The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'. "

" By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. "

" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "

" In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. "

" I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. "

" No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. "

" I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. "

" I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. "

" I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. "

" Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. "