Quotes

I asked an old preacher once how he got his call to the ministry. He said, 'Preaching came to me and I ran. But it caught me, so I preach.' I think acting is the same way. I always tell kids when I visit schools that I believe God gives us all a vocation, the thing we are put here on earth to do. The trick is to make your vocation your occupation, if you can.

My sympathies have always been with the monster.

Jesus is the most durable and resilient figure in history. Had he not existed, I doubt we would have had the guts to imagine him.

My personal theory is that fear of death accounts for most of the real horror in the world; the cruelty, the coldness of heart, the emptiness of celebrity culture.

An actor will end up with a bleeding heart if they're worth a damn. Being so many others leads one to the realization that there is no "other," only us in potentiality, for better or worse.

Macabre with an undercurrent of melancholy is what the camera likes to see me do, because of my scarred face, and it's what I like to do on camera, because of my introspective nature. Life is a different thing, but the lens casts a spell, doesn't it? The camera sees into our dungeons and digs around in our dirt. So you better give it what it wants from you, or it will happily look elsewhere.