Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknownEnter within. Stay withoutOn pain of death, we cast you out.

Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

I have two grandchildren.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.