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

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

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.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

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.