I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

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.

If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Revenge is never a straight line.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.