I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

I know that there are a billion girls out there that would kill to be in my position, and I never forget that.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.