I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

Truth never hurts the teller.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.