Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

The act of giving is the grace to meet a need.

Trust God To Do Things It His Way... Not Your Way.

The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

If you think that I'm nuts, you may be right. But I'm a nut with a positive attitude, baby!

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.