As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.