I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

Everyone hurts us. If we stopped loving them because of pain, we'd never love anyone.

Whatever the situation, there exist sacred solution.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

You find your strengths and play them up.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.