The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

I would rather be average and wise than be extraordinary and imprudent.

Have a robust mindset

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard.

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.