Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

My face is my career.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Another faculty has released this knowledge: our spirit. It is God’s Word in our spirit. It creates a reality that registers in our spirit. We live by this spiritual knowledge and walk in its light.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.