Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.
We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.
Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.