Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.

Be robust enough to work more than a robot!

Life is a series of awakenings.

Every opportunity has challenges when you overcome it turns to rewards.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.