I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.