The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Where do you want it?

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

If you really, really want to help people, stop denying them their dreams when they're young.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.