As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

No one knows how another person feels in private.

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.