I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.

A truly evolved society is one which is measured by how well it treats the least of its members.

When you're scared, when you close your eyes ... just know there is nothing left to fear!

there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

The U.S. has dropped its role as the vanguard of free trade, they are looking for a new partner: the EU.

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.