The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.

Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies.

Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Man does not live by destruction.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.