Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

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.

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.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

I write as a sow piddles.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

Kippers : fish that like a lot of sleep.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?

My first go-round was in a group called Heltah Skeltah, I did that, it was cool.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

I knew I wanted to shoot in Japan early on. Years ago, we did a Japan segment in "The Community Project," and at the time I felt it was one of the better Japan segments ever captured.