Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

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.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

Instead of allowing a situation to alter your attitude negatively. Let your positive attitude alter the situation.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

To be tired it is only in your mind.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.