And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'

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.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.