You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

The best villains are the nicest guys in person.

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.

Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.

Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.

Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need our mentors to help us to give birth to those new names.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.