In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

Be natural at heart and new in mind.

Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.

Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission.

Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.