It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

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.

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 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.

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

We all have the defects of our qualities.

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.