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.

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.

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.

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

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 think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

Let's put Christ back into Christmas.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.