This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect..

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of ….

I try to only vent when I really need to process something, and let the rest go..

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is ….

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out..

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more..

I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to te….

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try..

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you….

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us..

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it ….

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House..

Like many things, I am nothing..

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war..

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met ….

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me..

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch..

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying..

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so ….

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society..