On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

A terrible plague has either killed mankind or transformed them into demons ... and all they want is Compton's soul.The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.

Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments.

A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, “Help.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.