“Are we terrible parents?”

The last time I felt this emotionally encumbered, I was playing Lady Macbeth on a Crystal Skies cruise ship during Shakespeare at Sea Week.

Your wayfaring thespian has returned

I can hardly hear you, John! The cheering and accolades are drowning out your gentle voice.”

I once hosted the non-televised portion of the People’s Choice Awards.

I’m positively bedeviled with meetings et cetera.

You do realize I’m a professional vocalist?

All in favor say aye.

“It’s probably nothing but I think I’ve killed a man.

I was worried sick, dear! ‘Where’s David? Or his bags?

I’m trying very hard not to connect with people right now.

I have lost all my skills, and now I know how it feels to be utterly helpless like you and your sister.

You must prepare for life, and whatever it will throw at you.

I am suddenly overwhelmed with regret, it’s a new feeling for me, and I don’t find it at all pleasurable.

You are the life you accept for yourself.

One day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, ‘Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!

I’ve been burned so many times I’m like the human equivalent of the inside of a roasted marshmallow.

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.