In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.