If you're not creating, you're waiting.

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.

Be confident to make your magic.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

To worship is to remember Who owns the house.