I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

Spring time is nature at its best.

If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.