I lack confidence as an actor.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds.

Feelings are not as uncomfortable to experience as they are to express.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.