How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Blessed be the grateful soul!

An actor should refine public taste.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.