I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I consider it probably one of the biggest honors to be in the Academy. There are only like 1300 actors in it, and as far as I know, you're a member for life. To this day, I'm wondering how lucky I was.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

'Newhart' ran the longest, and it was great to have a regular role, but I run into a lot of film fans, and they ask me about 'Blade Runner.' I was grateful to be a part of that.

As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way, too. But after a while, I said, 'Let me just finish the degree. I'm getting the G.I. Bill.'

I hope to outlive my enemies.

I kinda like where I am. If I'm recognized all the time, I have to leave better tips in restaurants.

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

I love the word 'resonance.'

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than any. It convinced some producers that I could play something other than a rural crazy, I guess.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.

It's easier to play quirky characters and hide behind wardrobe and make-up, especially.

My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses.

Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life.

One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.

Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

This industry is tough on relationships. I've always thought that my wife should have a credit up alongside mine because I couldn't do what I do without her support.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.

The greatest personal fulfillment comes when we contribute to improving the welfare of others.

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.

I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.

Guard well within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.