As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume.

I was in Rent, for Gods sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I'm romantic to the point of embarrassment.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

The madness is runnin' wild!

Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.