“I probably write a poem every 50 years.”

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.

I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.

To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.

If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.

I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.

The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.

Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.

They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.

Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day.

At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.