I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.

In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.