When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

I wish I had a funny story.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

I have fans all around the world.

I can be inappropriate at times.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.

I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you can’t follow Him by yourself.