I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him.

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :)

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

I think you get better as you get older.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.