I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Wake up! Time to die!

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

The great mentor is master builder of great students.

It's your eyes, I think. They promise something kind. Heaven help the world should you ever turn dark. You would send Satan himself scrambling.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.