The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

Friendship is the underlying element, the common denominator of every relationship.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared