I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.