The New York Times made you or broke you.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

I love life, and I embrace every minute of it.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.

I'll make my own magic

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

Every single day, I'm shocked at what I've been given the opportunity to do.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.

Stop killing your brothers and your sisters and help them out in any difficulty. That's my message.

We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.