I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.