You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.

Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

DNA has memory!

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.