When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.