I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

Never think you can convince God through prayer for a blessing. Praying for prosperity is a wrong weapon for war. If prayer could bring money, all intercessors would be billionaires.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.