I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.