If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

Happiness manifest when the ordained is realized

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

All is as we are.

Why do people who already have so much get bitter about those who have a little more?

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden.