My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

One never knows how loyalty is born.

Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

If acids win - you lose!

John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it.

What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

When Oprah Winfrey wears something, it works out, too. But if someone's having "a moment," that always helps.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Everyone in Nashville's got DUIs because there's no public transportation and everyone's too lazy to call a taxi.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become.