Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.

You don't have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It's your life. Live it without apologies.

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

True fulfillment in life doesnt come from what we get it comes from what we give.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

My nature just changes.

Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.