There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.