My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…

You are more than capable of taking decisions about your own life.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

I don't want people to chop off the citizens' or anybody's heads in the Middle East, OK? Because they're Christian or Muslim or anything else.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.