When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

Beate the dog before the Lyon.

I really do believe it you can live through remodeling a home, you can live the rest of your lives together.

The baby is a different person

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.