Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.