In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

The past has to inform the present...

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.