All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man’s life.

I don't know where I am- somewhere between heaven and hell, a place of utter terror and endless confusion.

Embrace truth and peace as you breathe the joyful heights of inner fulfilling serenity.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

Never settle for second when first is available

Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.