I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.
Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.
Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.
It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive.
His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!
Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles
