I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived.

I’m not putting that in my mouth.

He’s going to kill everyone on this planet, reduce the human race to dust. There will be no one to stop him. You are the only one who can. - Aiden Deverill

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.