'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.

I'm an actor, I worry about everything.

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.