Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

I loved those eyes, even though they never saw my pain, I loved those ears, even though they heard my stories

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

She is Islam, and I am in Love.

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.