If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.