I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

You can't have a wrong mentality about life and expect that you will see the bright side of life.

History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.