I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.