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

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" 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. "

" Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal. "

" Family is not an important thing. It's everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. "

" I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way. "

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

" If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. "

" I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. "

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

" I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. "

" I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. "

" 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. "

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

" The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. "

" If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed. "

" The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. "

" Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? "

" I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. "

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" 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. "

" Pity is a benign form of abuse. "

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

" I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. "

" So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it. "

" 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. "