I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

We would have never gotten mace had someone not thought, There must be a good way to burn someone's eyes.

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Anytime you part with money, bless it and say - 'There's always more where that came from.'

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.