Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

I've never sold my company or products.

Its who you know and who can help you.

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

I do not have a helmet. But this is a wig, so it's a little protective.