I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

A salesman sees a commission.

We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!

Physics is simple, but subtle.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.