The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Start today to follow your heart. Map out your own journey. Have the adventure of a lifetime.

We're creatures, so we have limits.