Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
The greatest writers of this age. . . are aware of the mystery of our existence.
Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.
Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.