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" Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive. "

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" I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me. "

" I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard. "

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" When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no. "

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" Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. "

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" Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up. "

" If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith. "

" Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.' "

" I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, 'God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.' I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. "

" I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. "

" I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work. "

" It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. "

" My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through. "

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