My FATHER had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental HOME, WITHOUT allowing it to INFLUENCE his INTELLECTUAL freedom.

There is a REAL affection for these HUMAN BEINGS on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you THINK of 'The Iceman Cometh.'

I WASH my hands of those who IMAGINE chattering to be KNOWLEDGE, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I COULD just feel the affection and the positive FEELINGS that they were exuding. It was ACTUALLY moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star WARS' is so much BIGGER than all of us.

It's ABSOLUTELY true that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to PLAY a character WITHOUT having any affection for him.

A LOT of people resent that I've been in SOMEONE's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an AFFECTION for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who GROW up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an EXAMPLE for me.

I have a GREAT AFFECTION for INDIAN CULTURE and MUSIC.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president INSPIRES enormous AFFECTION and enormous hostility. We'll all be MUCH saner, I think, if we remember that HISTORY is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

I live a perfectly happy and COMFORTABLE life in Blair's BRITAIN, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've CREATED for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of REAL value and meaning.

Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each other. That's why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama's public DISPLAY of affection with George W. BUSH at last month's DEDICATION of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

I think the President INSPIRES tremendous affection and LOYALTY by a WIDE range of people.

From the BEGINNING to the end of a drama, it's most important that I'm focused on the PROJECT that I'm RESPONSIBLE for and FEEL affection towards it. Then I get faith that the project will end up being good before GETTING fully engaged in it.

If you're LIKE me, FOOD is a medium for communication. It's an expression of LOVE and AFFECTION.