I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

It's so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

Independence has made us Soft

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.