Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

The innovator's motto is this

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

My characters are not plastic.

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.