The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

I write because it hurts.because I need it to hurt.because it hurts in the mostbeautiful way possible.(because it hurts like you)

Sound soul

You’re in the country of the kangaroo and the duck-billed platypus, and you’re asking ‘why is it a mushroom? Because it just IS.

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.