As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

I do watch what I eat but I've got a real sweet tooth.

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

All hoods make not monks.