Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

I love talking about Scientology.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

I lowered the gun but didn’t holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.