I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

Time is the content of life

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

As long as I have a studio with producers, I can make something everyday. And the people know what type of quality it's going to be.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.