Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.