My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.