Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

I never pursued a career relentlessly

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.