I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

It’s not reality that makes people happy

No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

I tried living as a very nice person, but there’s no need to be nice .. you have to be mean to survive

I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly. Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia." "Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.