I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable.

You used, " he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

You have the power to reverse your age.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.