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

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.

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.

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

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.

Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.

Compatibility doesn't determine the fate of a marriage, how you deal with the incompatibilities, does.

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.

Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!

Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.