Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

If you look a little punkish, then they’re going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Real greatness comes from that sort of spontaneity of the moment that takes it into another level. That can never be planned; it happens or it doesn't. And you can't force it.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.