At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Great rogues hang the little ones.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

Love will abide, take things in stride.

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

Love is never any better than the lover.