Being a Barrymore didn't help me other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

Faith is an act of rational choice which determines us to act as if certain things were true and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it or rational argument that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience a family bonding experience.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

I add this that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I love my early movies but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings dreams an acceptance of irrationality.

'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.