I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

I've never sold my company or products.

Its who you know and who can help you.

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness.

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.