I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

True faith rely on God's power.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.

Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.

Man must become better and more evil.

Better to wear out than rust out.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.

Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.