Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

A blank page and time ignite infinite possibilities in a mind unyielding to boundaries.

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

I just think we've had years and years of allowing our jobs to be dissipated in America, and there's no reason for it.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.