When Luke and Laura dated in 'General Hospital' when I was a kid I was very excited. And that was a rather pathetic relationship if you break it down because let's face it: he raped her... and then they got married. There's all kinds of things that TV does to relationships.

I had a great time making the last movie 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.

If you look back on the breakups that you've had whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand it's always awkward.

When people hold you in high esteem it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

For the most part that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

If you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine you know just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!

Local politics like everything else are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

Amnesty is a terrible policy and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because unless we do all of these things it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Well I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love loss heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

Freedom is poetry taking liberties with words breaking the rules of normal speech violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Publishing the lyric books poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

When you want a break from dogs and you take them to the kennel to the stars no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

I just always have to cry out a breakup and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

Character... is a habit the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.