I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.

No victory without war. No prize without price. No winning without contest.

All true Northerners should bare steel to their enemies, and stand true to the course they have chosen, for when the heart is divided by fear then the battle is already lost.

He's so old his social security number is two digits.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.