I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.

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.

You are free to do anything you want, provided you are not a beneficiary of others effort.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.