Don’t you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It’s like you ordered wrong.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.

Whatever we’ll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

It’s funny because it’s funny.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

I’ve never been able to say I’ve been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I’ve been influenced in some way by all of them.

Our music, you either get it or you don’t. There’s no middle ground.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts...

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates...

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Cheers is my favorite show of all time.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I’d know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope...

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

You hope and pray that you’ll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in...

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you’re doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I’ve worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and...

We were all Romans once, I guess.

I did the movies because I love to act.

I left because I decided it just really wasn’t for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened...

I didn’t know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn’t believe it – we must change them 10 times a day – each. So that’s 20 diapers a piece a day.

I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It’s funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay....

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn’t make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

People said, That’s great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

I’ve kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I’ll spring back to what I originally was.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

You know, social issue movies don’t make a lot of money.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are...

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

The next morning we came into the port at Miami. I saw the buildings. For me they were tall, tall buildings; there was nothing like them in Nassau.

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don’t stop being a reporter because you’ve become a columnist.

You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.