I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.