I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an AMERICAN MOVIE because it meant losing my German ACCENT.

All MINORITIES think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in FIVE that gets SKIN cancer! It's a MYTH, and MYTHS are meant to be debunked!

When McGwire started the HOME run mania, ATTENDANCE CAME back. The owners understood that the SUDDEN spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball KNEW it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

If a GREAT PART comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European ACCENT, great; but if it's a bad part I won't TAKE it.

The FIRST epics were INTENDED for recitation; the literary epic is MEANT to be READ.

I LOOK at THINGS as 'Everything is MEANT to be.'

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and MEANT a lot of DIFFERENT things to different people, and ALSO because it's SUBJECTIVE.

Why do I talk about the benefits of FAILURE? SIMPLY because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped PRETENDING to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and BEGAN to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant BUILDING a WHOLE RANGE of DIFFERENT houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

All their SPORT in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I FIND in Plato; alas good folk, they NEVER felt what true pleasure meant.

If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to COLLEGE. I didn't want to be a STRUGGLING ACTOR at 36 with five kids, doing SOMETHING I hated. You SEE the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a GOOD essay in or say whatever I WANTED to say through the pen. That was a GIFT of mine. I feel like it was what I was MEANT to do.