It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.