I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days o….

Life is just a Box of Chocolates..

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent..

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life..

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomp….

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive..

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily..

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes..

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy..

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do..

I became an actor by accident, not by design..

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them ….

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with….

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong..

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to writ….

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray..

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reex….

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer..

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be..

The foundation for film acting is stage acting..