Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

Take every job. Learn everybody's name. Show up early. Know who you are and know who you're not. Stop dreaming and start trying.

If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things.

The closer a husband and wife get to God, the closer they get to each other. The farther away they get from God, the farther they get from each other.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.