I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

They're not chicks. They're ducks.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.

Nothing succeeds like - failure.