You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.

Life was such a precious thing, easily broken.

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.