It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
I'm not hard to get along with.
In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.
Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.
It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
A bowler can make or break a chap.
Writer's block is just another name for fear.
I worked on a farm for a little bit.
I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
It took me four months in Biosphere 2 to make a pizza.
Every day I get more and more honest.
We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
