Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I love talking about Scientology.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.

I don’t know if you picked up on the elephant in the room… but we’re witches. Angela, Andrea, me, and Evelyn and Celia back home.”--Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

The one who loses his head no longer cares about his hair.

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.