Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

I think the first villain that I ever played was on Stargate. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.

I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really needs to be a specific type of character.

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.

Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.

The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death.

She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

I said all along that God is in control.