“Take action. Every story you’ve ever connected with, every leader you’ve ever admired, every puny little thing that you’ve ever accomplished is the result of taking action.”

You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that’s incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That’s the down side.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.

So, to a certain extent, he’s very interested. If there’s some problem or something that doesn’t ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to… y’know, we’ll plan ideas and we’ll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out.

I identify with this guy’s frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it’s interesting.

There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.