My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

If there is true ‘Selfishness, ’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

Be strong and free from fear.

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.

if we fail to root ourselves in Scripture, our souls will be starved for Christ.

There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.