Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.