I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.

I wish you water.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.