I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.