I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow.

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.