Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.