You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.