I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Stunner! Stunner! He got all of it by God!

I certainly immerse myself in as many crazy Hollywood events as I can because you never know where you can pick up material.

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.