For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I generally play strong people and scary people.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

The discussion of fur is childish.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.