Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.