It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.

When you're going to spend a couple of weeks with people, you want to be with people that are enjoyable.

When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.

When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, "Oh, that makes sense." And it's easy.

If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

You never know how things are going to turn out.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer.

I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.