Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

Koko B. Ware … his mom’s first name was Tupper.

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.