You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.

I like being able to fire people.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.