People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

Life IS a competition. ALWAYS. No matter whether any of us want it to be or not!

In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

What Hath God Wrought.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.