I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

I've never sold my company or products.

Its who you know and who can help you.

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.

Think of who has shaped your life and where you have come now in the present.

A steady flame unwavering & honest

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.