A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if you cease to teach cursive writing, how does one know how to, I don’t know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.