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.

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.

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

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

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.

When you put on a new cloth with the same attitude, you are only changing the diet that goes into the same stomach!

When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.