I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

The dead never truly die. They simply change form.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.