Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

Derek’s like, “So . . . what do you want to do first?” “I don’t know.” “Feel like ice cream?” “It’s, like, three degrees out.” “That’s why getting ice cream would be badass.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.