I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.

Demons exist, ' he says simply, as if talking about the weather. 'They are real and they are dangerous. We hunt them when necessary and return them when we can.

As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Don't stay away from me anymore."I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

My will can control anything that’s empty.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.