It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

A good friend would offer you an umbrella in the rain. A best friend would steal yours and say, 'run, b*tch, run!

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.