I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.

There is no sin but ignorance.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.