You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.

I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

I want to win football games.