I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

First say to yourself what you would beand then do what you have to do.

The problem with many believers today is that they try to cooperate with the world

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.