I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.