There's always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

He that is angry at a feast is rude.

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.