I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.