I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

I still am very afraid to Google myself. There are some embarrassing roaming photos that I wish weren't on Google. But I intend to not Google myself.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.