Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Love" is a brilliant defying logic that thrives on human weaknesses!

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

I get sidetracked very easily.

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.