My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke.

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

I love a warm bath at the end of a day.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!

I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.