The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

A boy is a creature of odd feelings.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.