I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.