I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

When you believe from your heart & soul you can achieve any goal!

Too big, too empty, too heartbreaking . . . Too much to cope with

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.