No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right..

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or ….

I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery..

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jammi….

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a….

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it..

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney ….

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move….

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you fi….

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word..

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something..

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning..

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it c….

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how ….

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned..

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater….

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to b….

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife..

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God….

That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with th….

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that t….