“I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.”

I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.

I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.

There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.

I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.

So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.