Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.

I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

Being real is what is important.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Eve said to the serpent, “You know I could go for a bite to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.”

May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss.