I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

Danger is opportunity inside out.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.