I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

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.

From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.

As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.

We can thank God for everything good, and all the rest we don't comprehend yet.

It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

I did The Frank Skinner Show, and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.