I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!